From foggy dawn to starlit night: five endless days, endlessly repeating…
The message, handed to me at the end, seemed like nonsense. But after a while I began to understand. After a much longer time I knew who’d sent it…
Time
& Coincidence
I know the force which
draws objects together & ends with
Destruction
Look back, see how events cluster and collide,
Drawn in by the celestial wash of Time,
leaving nothing but flotsam
bobbing in the
wake
~~~
And as I ponder those words afresh, memories loom out of the mist like the sails of a schooner off the Grand Banks, skimming past my bridge with a tangible rush and barely a yard to spare. So close I can see the man on watch, and terror in the helmsman’s eyes…