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1.
   I am running away to Africa.


2.
   I am setting my body adrift. lover,
   tell me one last time that I'm not seaworthy
   with this sail I patched with my own hands and watch me
   rake waves with my fingers in the other direction;
   my whole life, the tides carried me to you and now
   I am finally floating away.


3.
   you were the only shore I saw until
   I opened my eyes a little wider. I'm afraid
   of dark water and open seas but I am more afraid
   of your coastline at night, the way the things
   I thought I knew and could see clearly disappear and
   leave me battered and broken against the rocks.


4.
   it was you and your hands that
   turned the lighthouse off.


5.
   the whales say I won't be free until I sing
   every ocean song I wrote for you.
   this is the last one I'll do.

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