Extract from 'Whispers in the Night'

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Richard Kinsella

Extract from 'Whispers in the Night'
Passing Ships
A placid sea,
A moonless night,
A canopy of black infinity,
A profusion of glittering stars
Shimmering in reflection
Upon a mirrored sea,
Seamless with the firmament.

A watch-keeper
Shares an ethereal moment,
Weightless at one
With the black immensity,
Only the distant throb
Of a muted engine dispels the illusion.

From out of the night
A small light flashes
Another ship signals,
'Titanic', bound New York,
The watchkeeper replies,
'Ship of Hope' bound Eternity.

Flashes of phosphorescence
Illuminates their bow waves
Against the dark mournful ocean,
Crew and passengers abed oblivious
As two ships share a destiny,
Ships that pass in the night.