I hated the sea, its vastness, and uncertainty.<\/p>\n
Thrown on a boat, tethered to the helm.<\/p>\n
Murky brown waters fade to clear blue as the sun beats down on me, all around me.<\/p>\n
Blinding heat chokes me as salt permeates my skull.<\/p>\n
I yearn for blissful shade, a gust, a breeze.<\/p>\n
Thirst falls upon me, my mouth unable to form words.<\/p>\n
I cannot scream for help.<\/p>\n
No longer do I care about how alone I am on this vessel.<\/p>\n
The time has come for me to survive.<\/p>\n
My teeth saw my hands free from the ropes, it takes hours.<\/p>\n
Struggling to keep my balance I peer over the side of the ship, the depth is dizzying.<\/p>\n
Panic sets in.<\/p>\n
I am alone.<\/p>\n
The engine rolls over every time I try to start it, I am dead in the water.<\/p>\n
So I allow myself to float.<\/p>\n
Staring at the clouds as I lay on my back trying to remain calm.<\/p>\n
Time passes.<\/p>\n
I reflect back on my life before The Boat.<\/p>\n
Kick my self over all the time I took for granted.<\/p>\n
Nausea, exhaustion.<\/p>\n
At some point, I lull off into a warm sleep.<\/p>\n
Visions of cold water and comfort fill my head.<\/p>\n
I wake.<\/p>\n
I cry.<\/p>\n
Night comes and the sky explodes.<\/p>\n
I never realized how terrifyingly microscopic I am in this universe.<\/p>\n
Millions of stars guide me through the night, singing lullabies.<\/p>\n
The water becomes still in an almost malicious way.<\/p>\n
Dawn begins to break and I’m carving words into the planks on the floorboard.<\/p>\n
And then a bump.<\/p>\n
Land.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I hated the sea, its vastness, and uncertainty. Thrown on a boat, tethered to the helm. Murky brown waters fade to clear blue as the sun beats down on me, all around me. Blinding heat chokes me as salt permeates my skull. I yearn for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1204,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48593,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48350\/revisions\/48593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}