The Wreck Poem by Philip Vincent Sanders

Tossed on the sea … the battered wreck
Shifts and creaks … with broken deck
What tales of far beyond this shore
What secrets held … from days of yore

The cargoes carried … spices … fleece
The dreams of those who sighted Greece
A sunrise over far Malay
A blinding storm near old Bombay

The hopes of many stowaways
Fleeing … wishing better days
The searing sight … when in full sail
Flattened by a screaming gale

The loving way … your timbers sleek
Were burnished by your sailors … weak
As round the Horn … you stormed on past
The wicked winds … and icy blasts

But now it ends in ignominy
Crushed and shattered … by your loving sea
No more to wild, wide oceans roam
The deep will be your final home