Adrift and Rescue
My ship threw me in the water
threw me roughly in the water
as though saying "do not follow
as I sink into the sea!"
Left me on the seas crests lurching
in the night it left me searching
for the hole within the darkness
that would take me from the sea
Then the sea itself evicted.
threw me out upon the seashore
threw me through the hole I'd searched for
through the night while in the sea.
Once upon the shore I stood there
listening vaguely to the thunder
to the thunder of the seashore
and it seemed to say to me.
Venture not into the water
Neptune's beasts lurk in the water
lurk there waiting for your footstep
as you step into the sea
many days now since my landing
hunger brought an understanding
dimmed the terror of the thunder
and I took food in from the sea.
No longer fearful of the pounding
I find the water warm and shining
friendly waves that make small ripples
as they swirl about my knees.
Waves that carry dainty fishes
past the sand and coral niches
bring to me the shells and fishes
that I take in from the sea.
Now the ship that found my seashore
takes me back across the water
a fond goodbye to my small island
and the father of the sea
Neptune, still the jealous father
still stands guard within the water
for his places that I trespassed
haven't left a sign of me.
He filled the places that I swam in
moved the sands that I did stand in
and the beach where rescue landed
shows no sign of them or me.
Neptune's liquid fingers cleansed it
grasped our markings on the seashore
pulled them with the jealous water
back into the foaming sea
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