This is a Trilogy from "One Year"

A LIMPET

A limpet in a stormy sea
Tossed and weary, she wished you'd see
For as limpets do, she clung on to her love rock
Lashed by vicious tongues in waves of torment she clung on
And thought, if only you could see
What anguish you caused me
For that limpet perhaps to you seemed so insignificant
May be you will, may be you cant
This is the one who loves you so very deep
Who gave away to you her heart to keep
And in its place an empty hole
For like a limpet she clings on tight fast
For when she gave her love it was promised to last
If only the rock to whom she clings
Could hear the song her hurt soul sings
Instead he listens to the beating lashing of the waves
Whose lying tongues, gossip, he craves
One day that limpet will be washed away
And rock will have lost his one true love
Claimed forever by the vicious waves
And when the storm is over and the seas have won
He'll weep forever on his own
A solitary lump of lonely stone

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A LIMPET'S JOURNEY

A limpet shed its sorrowful tears
Comforted in the sun
A crab came by and heard her fears
And told her please don't cry
For when you do the seas grow strong
He smiled as she sighed
Forget the rock he's had his day
Let him play with the cruel sea
He has his lesson to learn, such is the way
Please smile for when you do, your smile lights up the sky
You can no longer help the rock, he'll always make you cry
He should have listened to your song
He should have heard you sing
Leave him now and come with me
Leave him, he's learned nothing
And so the ocean laughed, as the waves did mock
And to his devices they left him a lonely unrepentant rock
Don't look back my limpet, leave him on his own
By mistakes we've learned and thus grown
And as the sun rose high
And brightened up the sky
A rock was destined to weep forever on his own
A stupid solitary lump of of lonely stone

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A ROCK'S JOURNEY

And so the rock was on his own
All cried out and all alone
He lost his only one true love
The gift bestowed from Spirit above
Who, she would have sold her very soul, her own
If only the regrets he would have known
For now she's gone all away
So many regrets he'll have to this day
For only five minutes, he would give
To tell her, without her, he couldn't live
There is a lesson here to be said
Please tell your loved ones, before love's dead
How much you really care
Please tell them with haste or lover beware
One day you might come to realise
It will be over, love's demise
And here like he, you will lie
A solitary rock left to weep and cry
All cried out and all alone
Very much full of regrets and forever on his own

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From "One Year"