Calm waters lure to me

A place uncharted of distant land

The gateway upon the mystic water stand

A place where no man should be.

No man dwells, rare the ships seldom past

A warning for those who desire to go ashore

You’ll find no safety here mid life’s poor

This is a land of misguided vast.

A midst it’s lies, the unsavory man

The luring of calm sought through the rift

The spirits that dwell, the souls they sift

Where sleep of day not found if you can.

Upon it’s shores no flower or beast has home

Abrupt and ghostly where no splendor save

The stillness of air, the mist from the wave

Creatures of mind this place they roam.

A place of undeniable beauty, yet we swore

By all the brightness from stars in flight

Not the place to seek refuge for the night

Beware of this place with haunted shore.

And no man denied the tale, for they knew

The enchanted mystery before their eyes

Strange sense of fear unknown surmise

Men who lived to tell the tale so true.

Should you stumbled upon such place

Though the tempests sings her song

Take no refuge this place is wrong

Here dwells the spirits without face.

Written by Dr. Rick McGrath, Ph.D.