Apprentice

I am learning to navigate: this is a second chance.

I am once more an apprentice, to cut long parlance:

Training to navigate our waters and appreciate the scene.

Under the tutelage of Kent I have always been.

It appears I’ve been the sirens’ captive—lost and blind;

They treated me like royalty but wiped out my mind.

As a shepherd carefully watches over his sheep,

Kent woke me up from a slumber so deep.

I am learning to navigate: this is my second chance.

I am once more an apprentice, to cut long parlance.

Kent’s skill may over mine prevail

But I’ll never stop learning how to sail.

(Sailing, Poem 5)