A POEM BY BOB ALVES
She waits for those – Who cannot return
They she gave port – seasons past and once again
She looks back and leaves not without remembrance, for etched are the names – Knelt at the entrance
She is a warm blanket, providing comfort and alike
Well read, silently-still, amid promise – watching leaders voice in the lights
Though garments worn while seasons pass become frail – Life’s renewing cause, She inertly hales
For She will live long and has been taught
Comforted by garments of eld, provides not
A Nor-easter, a heartfelt sigh
The clouds forewarn, some may die
It is now We, silently watched with a grin
She waits for those – Who cannot return
They She gave port – seasons past – and once again
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bob Alves is a graduate of Gloucester High School and Boston College. Bob’s waterfront roots go back to the early 70’s
when he worked as a dock-boy for John Cluett with his brother Dean at Bickford’s Marina in Rocky Neck. At the age of 15 Bob’s grandmother bought him the first of many boats, a “Montgomery Fish” sailboat. Now in his mid-sixties, Bob continues to be a waterfront activist and enjoys his time with his brother aboard the “Message She Gave.”
COVER PHOTO: iStock Photo donated by Terry Weber Mangos
