Friday 17th May 2024
The Great Sea of Unknown single release
The first of four tracks from the upcoming Sounding Seams EP release, I wrote the The Great Sea of Unknown in 2019, in memory & celebration of Bas Frederiks.
The Great Sea of Unknown
Who knows where we come from
or where we're bound to go.
Fixed in time our flesh and bone,
round the Earth in circles go.
Every inhalation is a leap of faith.
Every exhalation is a breaking wave
upon the Great Sea of Unknown
And should the mystery weigh
heavily upon your breast.
Let it be a sounding bell,
summoning your greatest force:
a fierce love, a burning
no dark doubt could dispel;
a will forged in living and tempered in death,
and plunged to cool into
the Great Sea of Unknown
All our sacred fables spin
a woolen chaos into thread.
And weave from it a sturdy chord
to bind the living to the dead.
The end of all we fathom
we anchor in our palms.
The other end, untethered,
ripples in the storms that rage
upon the Great Sea of Unknown
© Laura Hyland 2019