Paint my hidden paradise

Painter, fetch your canvas
Use your knife to paint the sea.
With your oils, give it life;
Untamed, wild and free.

Let me look out off a dinghy
At a jagged cliff face up ahead,
At a cave I can only reach
When the tide is almost dead.

Painter, make the sea
To crash against the rock.
Make the spray to ride the wind,
Have the seabirds begin to flock.

Let me look out of a dinghy
To the cave I yearn to be.
To explore it's loneliness,
Where I long to vanish far and free.

Tamara Anderson
18/January/ 2011