LOVE IS YOUR ANCHOR

 Floating on the surface of life,
 feeling too deeply to settle down.
Your heart has no anchor
you're drifting
drifting without love,
on the Sargasso Sea.

Like the Ancient Marine but,
for you, it lasts
year after year, year after year,
You're stuck barely breathing -
Like an oil painting
on an artist's canvas.

Why did you slay the albatross?
He could have led you away from
the icy Antarctic of the heart.
How long will you bear him
hanging from your neck?

You're all alone,
surrounded by the corpses of the lost.
Your life held in the balance
 by a nightmare's pale woman.

Love will come to you when
you've opened your mind
 to the beauty 
and the light.
And come away from the dark of your mind.

Your trance will fade and your ship will sail.
You'll see the lighthouse of your Home.
Then you'll breathe your joy, and
You'll find that love is your anchor.

©Ellen Pepper 2026