Sail Across the Water
by Jane Siberry

love is trembling - trembling like the little bird we hold within our hands

love is bending - bending towards the worried brow - here, let me wipe away

your tears

love is kneeling - above the broken body the ever-upturned face

love is missing - all the words are broken, help me, i cannot find my way,

no i can't

i need you love, come on love

will you sail 'cross the water and lay your wisdom down?

and love will you sail 'cross the water and tell us what you found?

and love will you sail 'cross the water and hold us when we drown?

and love will you sail 'cross the water?

is anybody listening...?


love is trembling - trembling like the leaves above the baby's bed

love is streaming - streaming with the tears that we cannot seem to shed

love is frozen - frozen in the figure they just pulled from the subway grate

love is burning - burning with the anger that we all feel, against which we

kneel,

our faces pressed into thhe lap of loneliness, come on love

will you sail 'cross the water and lay your wisdom down?

and love will you sail 'cross the water and tell us what you found?

and love will you sail 'cross the water and hold us when we drown?

and love will you sail 'cross the water?

are we not willing? are we not trying? are we not trusting? are we not

crying?

are we not children? are we not stumbling? are we not wondering? are we not?

sail 'cross the water and lay your wisdom down?

and love will you sail 'cross the water and tell us what you found?

and love will you sail 'cross the water and hold us when we drown?

and love will you sail 'cross the water?

are we not willing? are we not bending? are we not frozen? are we not

trembling?

are we not children? are we not trying? are we not wondering? are we not?

love is trembling (1 year and 120 days ago)

5 Comments

Lay, Your, Wisdom, Down

CMYK46 says:

Minimal evidence of photoshop work here, but I suppose it's whatever you can get away with... Reply »

(1 year and 119 days ago)

Reply:

Floortje1973 says:

Nice image, maybe you should try and change the eyes back the way they are in the source, as well as the eyebrows. I had to look in hi-res to see you put the face in the statue. The nose looks a little flat, maybe some work there? Nice work author and GL! Reply »

(1 year and 118 days ago)

Reply:

erathion says:

very nice piece author...love the mood and the message...gl Reply »

(1 year and 118 days ago)

Reply:

MossyB says:

Doesn't really look like her at all. Reply »

(1 year and 118 days ago)

Reply:

author says:

@MossyB, wasn't suppose too, but then again you should check the cover of When I was a Boy (it's really more about the song, it still gives me goosebumps) Reply »

(1 year and 118 days ago)

Reply: