Date with Destiny Exquisite joy, exquisite pain Are no strangers to me For years ago I slipped my moorings Drifting out to sea That ocean of the hearts delight Denied me for so long Where waves of passion swell the night As mermaids sing their song The story of a love gone cold And weep while singing, So sad the song They sing of how I risked it all To set my captive free A melancholy figure Revealed in a dream to me She stood alone in darkest gloom Before a window barred All dressed in black, I viewed her back And knowledge came to me She was my ‘self’ My strong desires I’d locked up on the day I gave myself in marriage My freedom locked away In a dark and lonely dungeon Far from the light of day So I broke free And chanced my fate Out on life’s oceans deep Oh! Had I known the hurt and pain The endless tears I’d weep I may have stayed confined and lost Instead of free.. And tempest tossed But still I sail the stormy seas My destiny to claim For faintly on the sweet night air I hear him call my name I just keep going forward I am so glad I am free For standing on some distant cliff He scans the seas for me.