CHESAPEAKE BAY

Heavenly body

Forms the good life within

Her melancholy

A ripple of vast chagrin.

Child-like rivers

Hold hands and run her way

Under siege by men

Who are fat and tend to prey.

Crabs, pearls, and schools

Cry for a chance to breathe

Factories and fools

Will die if they can’t conceive.

Remnants of man

She brushes to her side

Tears of soot and sand

Flood the moment he has lied.

Some kind of tribute

That’s formed this haggard bay

Let’s clean up our act

And she’ll wash another day.

Neptune’s young maiden

The moon’s come out to play

He lightens her life

And moves his Chesapeake Bay.