A Challenge (The Wanderer)

I

The wanderer told me

Of galleon shores

how mystery beckons

while fire lights close

He spoke of danger in unholy men

The eye of the lion who looks over men

I've never seen anything

I've wanted to sail

Give unto me, a challenge

II

The wanderer left me

Excited by need

To run from the mountains

and take to the shores

He swore an oath

To journey afar

holding his head high

drenched in fatigue

III

I watched from a distance

The manner of his way

and fought for a reason

to which I could remain

I gathered the soil

The fodder of my feed

and ran from the mountains

the honeycombe of seed.

I've never seen anything

I've wanted to sail

Give unto me, a challenge

hi ho.

IV

I took to the ocean

Affection of the sea

the roaring of winds

the blessing of my plead

Gales held a warning

Of what lay ahead

the signs of a strange land

those mysteries of sea

V

I braved through the storm

Resolute in fright

and leapt at the landing

no caution in sight

A fire on the sea shore

Defiant to the last

desire took control

the famine and the fast

I've never seen anything

I've wanted to sail

Give unto me, a challenge

hi ho.

VI

I seen in the distance

The wanderer so bold

the might and the standing

a journey for the true

I boasted of my glory

An action of the brave

he laughed and he shunned

and turning with disdain

I've never seen anything

I've wanted to sail

Give unto me, a challenge

hi ho.

VII

The parasite within me

Drowned among the flak

releasing my bravado

the stunt of my attack

The wanderer soon left me

Alone, the sunken plume

widower of a mountain

so sullen and so soon

I've never seen anything

I've wanted to sail

Give unto me, a challenge

VIII

I dreamed of a mountain

High above the sea

the guardian of beauty

custodian of free

Take me home, I'm weary

Sentinel of sea.

The danger of a journey

oh sea, the sea, I see.

I've never seen anything

I've wanted to sail

Give unto me, a challenge

hi ho.