8. A Sentimental Journey

(Inspiration; during my Marine Corps enlistment, prior to our landing in Vietnam in 1966, we were on a training voyage to Mt Fuji, Japan when our ship ran into a typhoon.)

Now the time was then                      

and as history repeats

then the time was now

–

the winds tossed the ship

waves cascading over both

port and starboard rails

–

earth controlling her

dominating species with

exacting command

–

hopes of one and all

on seeing a tomorrow

thoughts in the silence

–

an anxious waiting

for more moments in this life

to present themselves

–

asleep in the deep

at this event horizon

not for us or ours

–

the typhoon subsides

and the voyage continues

to unplanned futures

–

humbled we see that

mortal efforts alone are

insignificant

–

Andy Syor

(© Feb 10, 2010-TXu 1-673-107)