This will be the last post for a while. I leave soon so I want to leave you all with something new. Before that, I just want you all to know that I will be thinking of you all and missing you incredibly. But just think, in 6 months I will be able to take some leave and come home and visit. I am planning on taking a few weeks and driving around the Midwest and visiting as many as people as I can. (That means I have to buy a car, haha) I am excited to go. I am very nervous as well, being the first deployment I am going on. My ship's email address is
marshag@ff56.navy.mil . The ship's address is : USS Simpson FFG 56; FPOAA; 34093-1510. Each ";" is a line break, address it to ENS Andrew Marsh. I will try to post on here as often as I can, and I will try to learn how to upload pictures. If not you will have to wait til I get back. Do not worry about me, I am kept in the hands of God and there is no safer place to be. I will get emails so feel free to contact me, I'd love to hear from you. Well, that's enough, here you go it's a work in progress....
Leaving
The Sea calls to me sweetly, enchanting
Holding untold fortune in her strange song
In her tumultuous fingers, she carries us
Crying salt tears for another to join her
None of us know how the Lady will bear us
We plot our course and pray for Almighty providence
But we put ourselves at the mercy of the waves and wind
Uncertain of true course and speed, we drift
Only God can stave off the wrath of the Grey Sea
Good Captain and Crew, will bring us home again
My face will again be seen in my father’s home
Not now, now I am leaving for unknown shores
Stuck too long in certain, solid ground
I will pry my feet free of murky mud, holding my legs down
The wide earth longs to be seen and traversed
the wild ocean waits for me, calling to me
Singing sweetly, enchanting, drawing me to unknown shores.
I am leaving.
