Homebound From Far

her mind drifted over the alluvial landscape covered a few sink holes and seeped quick sand from a life built on dense sediment and erosion she had never asked for much but now she was firm not so quickly please she pleaded for more time deposits have to settle and sludgy silt needs to graft a plastic spade and a battered bucket searched patiently battling restlessness and discomfort of whose home is what castle covered in sand this challenge is so vast and my tools are so small my roots are grip-less muddy and abandoned she noticed and gave up on fighting the tides huddled with eyes on a rock pool in which a starfish rested on algae and crusted display spread eagled she halted a while and gave way now motionless she let be and inhaled deeply while a wave of the ocean broke over her spine resurrected firm resolve in view of gloomy farewell yet despite crushing abrasions she started to float was washed up at the other end of the beach in a cave with pebbles and brazen drift wood with consciousness bathed and cleansed to the core she wiped salt from sad eyes and sorrow from her lips kissed the nautical Prince who had been there all along 24th February 2021