Poetry

Conception Island

 

 

The crescent moon is rocking
In a sea of drunken stars

 

The beach as pale as grinded skulls
Of stranded shipwrecked sailors
On earth condemned to silence
By the rushing waves of time.

 

The island now is stranger than
Any foreign planet

 

So strange that I can feel at home.

 

 

 

Bahamas, November 2001
©Susanne Steines