“Sail” by Alexander Kravetz

Sail

I sail this sea where black and white

Prove manifest and made anew.

Uncharted is this day and night:

A journey sailed by but a few.

I seek to reach the end of ends

Where answers may be found at last;

Yet, how obscure be all it lends,

Despite the efforts of my mast.

"Wherefore am I..." the sea begins—

An echo, once more, from the past.

And, oft' is it spurred by chagrins,

Yet wisdom is, indeed, amassed.

Though sights beheld be not the Whale,

Nor quite the beauty of the Forms,

My ship still drifts and seeks to sail

In search of all beyond the storms.

Alexander Kravetz is currently a freshman at the University of Michigan. He is part of the College of Literature, Science, & the Arts, and he is a member of the Lloyd Scholars of Writing and the Arts learning community associated with Alice Lloyd Hall.