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The Talisman

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The Talisman

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When I stand and lookAbout the portAnd contemplate my life, will IEver see my countrymen again?As the captain calls us on the deckI take my things and walkTo the harbourside, I glance backOne last time.Fleeing our nation, our problemsWe leave behind.Ships by the tenfold sailOut on the tide.We are pleased to be out andEmbracing the open sea.Free from our troublesAnd more free from thee.Inheritors unfulfilled reasonBehind us.We flee from what is not whatIs will be.We flee the earth and face ourHarsh reality.Will death be low mist thatHangs on the sea?We run from the evil tongues, rashJudgements, selfish menNever to be seen on theseShores again.As we sail into oceansizeAnd lose sight of all landA face of contentmentAround in the air.We're off now toSeek all our fortunes.To the land of our dreams.Riding the waves and the stormIs upon us.The winds lash the sails butThe ropes keep them tight.Off in the distance a dark cloudApproaching.None could imagine what thereWas to come.No, there's no one going back.No, there's not a second chance.As we strap onto the sideWe pray to God that we don't die.As we ride the rough seas,As we soak from the ocean waves,I just hope for all our livesAnd pray that I survive.Four ships are lost in theStormy conditions.The spirits of the sunken crews,Their phantoms follow us.Spirits, sails, they drive us onThrough the all consuming waves.Cold mortality, no weaponAgainst these ever raging seas.Four leagues and ten and weHit storms again.We just can't get away fromThe eye of the storm.The birds outsoar the raging stormBut we cannot escape it.Abandoned earth that weNow craveIs many leagues from safe.Holding on for our dear livesAnd we're praying once again.Rotten luck or just jonahed?The talisman is in my hand.Limbs fatigues, trembling with cold.Blinded from the sea spray salt.Clasping anything we can hold.Heave's rain upon us falls.Twenty days without a mealAnd ten without fresh water still.Those that didn't die in stormsThe scurvy rest did slaughter.Westwards the tide.Westwards we sail on.Westwards the tide.Sail by the talisman.We approach the other sideOf the ocean with the tideIn our favour just for once.Welcome greeting, our new land.The elation in our hearts,The excitement in our veinsAs we sail towards the coastlineOf our golden promised land.Weary limbs fatigued away.I have no life left in me.No more strength and nothingLeft to give.Must find the will to live.Never thought that we couldMake it.Truly sight of shores divine.The sickness I am dying from.Never wanted it to end this way.Westwards the tide.Westwards we sail on.Westwards the tide.Sail by the talisman.

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