You spent your last days in a hospital room
One month before your beating heart stopped...

Take this path unto the sea
Neath bright clouds, chalcedony...

Goodbye my friend, nothing remains
I fled from you on speeding trains...

I recall now the colored shells
Strewn cross the beach of Sanibel...

By Newport's waters, I once met
A fair maid on the windy beach...

Fair Luna of the midnight sky
Omniscient pearl that brightly gleams...

Distant lover,
Cast your mournful spell across the evening's cold...

On rails of steel, I flew away
O'er deep green swamp and windy bay...

Of distant dreams that call in the silence of...
Their resonance in tropic humidity...

Ring of green round melting pearl
Fountain streams up to the sky...

Desert star of melting silver,
Gleaming through the clouds...

Worn coral paths of history
Wind gently neath the evening shadows...