Lost to the Sea

Lost to the Sea - A poem by The Brick

I met this mother the other day

she said she lost her son but it was all okay

it all started at the age of three

during a long boat trip on the big blue sea

she watched him lean on the rail

while gusts of wind blew the sail

and she lost her son to the sea

when he turned five 

she watched him dive 

off the rock on the count of three

she knew it then but couldn’t comprehend 

that she had lost her son to the sea

at the age of nine the boy wanted to fly

so she gave him fins and a plane

but what she couldn’t explain as she talked to me

was that she had lost her son to the sea

he had trouble at school trying to be cool

so he got lost in the sea

as he got older he would come home and hold her 

and then escape to the sea

He got a job but just felt robbed

This wasn’t who he wanted to be

But he worked real hard, punched the card

And spent all is extra time in the sea

she went up to his room one morning

to realize that he was gone

he had left at dawn and then went on 

to go get lost in the sea

that afternoon his mom found the letter

that he left by the trunk of a tree

it said “money is fine but the ocean is better,

I am going to get lost in the sea