<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=382892" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Sea and Me</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Light a lamp inside my home<br>so I may feel welcome from whence I roam.<br>For I have been gone for much too long.<br>I yearn to hear your sad sweet song.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The light of the lamp will say to me<br>that I have been missed too much by thee.<br>Such is the life of a man of the sea, <br>torn between work and his family.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I've missed the smell of food just cooked<br>and the taste of it and how it looked.<br>The time I've lost with you by my side<br>brings me all the tears I must hide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sea is my home away from you.<br>It's what I love. It's what I do.<br>But when I return from ventures on high<br>I know where my heart also does lie, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Between the sea and you, whom I love, <br>beneath the stars and the sky above.<br>Be patient my wife and pray for me<br>and keep the lamp lit so I may see</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the warmth of the lamp that fills my heart<br>and keep it lit when I depart.<br>For the sea is calling and I must go<br>out where the waves and the wind doth blow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Such is the life of this family of mine<br>as I sail the sea and they do pine.<br>God, grant them peace. Let the lamp stay lit.<br>For this life I love I cannot quit.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edwina+Reizer">Edwina Reizer</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=382892" data-title="The Sea and Me de Edwina Reizer" data-description="Light a lamp inside my home so I may feel welcome from whence I roam. For I have been gone for much too long. I yearn to hear your sad sweet song. The light of the lamp will say to me that I have been missed too much by thee. Such is the life of ..."></div> </div> </div>

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