Those Gray Doors

There is a castle by the sea

And its gray doors I’ll never see

Long it’s been since they fled from me

And I now fear I’ve lost the key

Across the glinting sands like jewels

Amongst the crystal clear blue pools

And where the salt breeze whisper cools

Lay those gray doors of happy fools

Time and fortune did strip me from

That merry place of bells and drum

Where singers serenade to dumb

Where those gray doors have left me numb

It slipped from eye and fled so fast

As if it were some story past

And as if some dark spell was cast

Without those gray doors, the pains last

And once without, not once within

A once pure soul now plagued with sin

A dirty chest holds now to chin

My back to those gray doors and kin

And with time past my memories fade

As dew drops in a sunny glade

Bright visions sully as I wade

But those gray doors have always stayed

And I return to open sea

Where land or home I will not see

For those gray doors do call to me

A siren’s song without a key