Your Glow

You lost your feeling for the waves
Before we ran aground
And you lost 13 men to the waves
We watched them all go down

Find you babbling in the sand there
Trying to find the thread
Spend an hour or so beside you
Cradling your head

It's time for you to go
But you never lost your glow

You lost a lot of sleep
Before the fever broke
And you found a kingdom by the fire
Rising in the smoke

Leave you here, or let the ocean
Claim you for its own?
Keep you here, or tithe you to the tides
To die here all alone?

Breathing through your visions, soft and slow
You never lost your glow

Your light, your signal
15 did respond
Just me left now, and you about
To learn what lies beyond

When we wake up from the big dreams
Of empires in the surf
If there's nothing left but water
Then let water be enough

13 gone, one vanished
You're well on your way
Adrift for half your life
Headed home today

Be still and know
You never lost your glow