Will anyone ever think back to my story and say “How heroic!”? To live a path into this destruction, all for a treasure, a vision that may have never existed at all… What was that vision? I’m not sure anymore… Am I still on the path? The lines on the map have blurred… I’m only […]
When I sleep, I don’t dream anymore… my shipmate caught me sleeping at the wheel… I only tried to close my eye for a second… Dreams can, even when awake, be as sweet as wine… so drink them up… until there’s none left. Imagine an infinite supply… The drunken tales I would tell, if only […]
Another day rationing. Another day in the cold and wet. Fishing has not been fruitful. What was I thinking? Promises of better days are a lie in the present. Should I have come on this voyage? We have lost so many. So many. It is now just the captain and I. I man every station […]
Wounds don’t heal the same anymore… The salt keeps it clean… maybe that’s one benefit to all this? Scar tissue is tougher… Does madness bring clarity?
The only thing darker than the sea around me is when I close my eyes. But the lightning flashes through my eyelids… almost feels like small flickers from a flame… I can, if only for a moment, feel its warmth… Oh to be dry and cozy… it would be heaven… Nirvana is more than a […]