A lovely song, Allison. My Mum was very keen on sea songs with life-advice metaphores. Songs like "Throw out the Life-line" It reminded me of this thread. It feels as though we all have these life-lines stretching over the seas.
When I was very little I was taken to the docks to farewell a relative who was returning to England. We held streamers between the passengers and the people on the dock - hundreds of people all holding tight to our coloured paper streamers. As the ship pulled away the streamers broke one by one. I hardly knew the relative and I haven't thought about this scene for years but I still feel the sadness in the hearts of all those people. I still see the tears.
I don't quite know why I've come up with that image, but there you go! Our life-lines are stronger than paper streamers, there is no sign of them breaking. Happiness and Joy