HYDRA 1994 STEVE WILCOX tonight i walk the landscape of thirty years before and climb the alabaster maze - which leads me to the door of the one who wrote of losers - the one who sang ", . . . by fire? " the one who searched for freedom through a bird upon a wire oh, i have travelled and waited and longed to hear you speaking sweetly from the tower of song i see the missing wire by the window high up there inside those drawn shutters there's a lady in a chair the pen at times was heavy - at times the body broke but many stopped to listen when the final words were spoke oh, i have travelled and waited and longed to hear you speaking sweetly from the tower of song but the fortress stands in silence with nothing to confess and the serpent guards the tower while our troubadour takes rest i spoke there to a lady behind the garden walls the keeper of the tower - now filled with vacant halls 'T' led me down a stone path - that coiled along the dock and we stopped to watch a young man beat his food against a rock oh, i have travelled and waited and longed to hear you speaking sweetly from the tower of song but the fortress stands in silence with nothing to confess and the serpent guards the tower while our troubadour takes rest you taught us to discover how the cracks let in the light tonight we just discover a gray door sealed tight so i'll stand here 'neath your window as the daylight fades to dawn for the golden voice that echoes from the tower of song i'll chart a course to leave this rock when morning breaks the night the poet here is sleeping . . . . where everything is white © 1996 by Steve Wilcox. All rights reserved. Reprinted here with permission. Steve Wilcox wrote 'Hydra 1994' after finding Leonard's home on the tiny Greek island. Unfortunately, grounds keeper informed Steve that "Leonard no home". The song appears on his 1996 debut CD, "My songs, Your Songs". 'T' is Tricia, his wife. They live in Fredericton, NB, Canada.