RAVEN GIRL by Richard Farina.

Now roam away my Raven Girl & roam away from me
& find a typhoon in the sky & find the howling sea
& beat your wild & roving wings & toss your raven hair
& sing a mad & joyous song & leave me with the dead.

The night's a cold & barren place, the darkness seldom lies,
The winds upon the howling seas will lift your feathers high.
The sand that inches from the tide will claim the steps I've sown,
The whispers in the ocean deep will pick my weary bones

What murmours in your raven heart have taken you from sleep
what raging on a foreign shore has left me here to weep

what clashing in the nightmare winds has stirred your angry dreams
what thunder on the darkling plain has never been forseen

I long to rove among the seas & hear the current cry
I long to blend among the waves & never question why
I long to shift above the sands & never come to rest
I long for raptures never known while lying at your breast

So roam away my Raven Girl & roam away from me
& find a typhoon in the sky & find the howling sea
& beat your wild & roving wings & toss your raven hair
& sing a mad & joyous song & leave me with the dead.

Raven Girl