She made camp,
Hopeful.
Now, analyzing
Every inch of island,
Circling,
Starved, sleepless,
determined,
alone,
crazed,
erratic,
hopeful.
Hope, he will still
Love her that way.
On her way back to camp,
she attempts to reassemble
self.
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XII. Negatives
“Doubt”
Message in a bottle
that she had found,
positive her love lived
–she tries not to doubt it,
or the island,
or herself.
His attempt
to set sail fails.
VI. Paradigm Shifts
Acquiescence
After day 28
she stopped counting the days
since she stepped
aboard
“Home
is where
the heart is,”
she whispers to her shadow.
Inventory
She wakes,
angrily.
Again on her raft
compass has gone missing
lost to the sea.
Oar, canteen, bag and
ocean remaining,
Again.
Of hands,
there are 2
of lips, 2,
of bodies, 1,
of thoughts
hers;
Alone.
“Beasts”
The daemons
remain,
hate is their
amusement.
And they descend
upon
the tired,
bored,
lost,
lonely
Only virtue
–a near impossible feat–
Saves
the few
from transforming
into these same
beasts.
III. Thoughts
“Wondering”
Storm
and another week
passed,
Wondering.
She wonders
how supplies
for 1
seem to be
never ending
in supply
A skeptical believer
sometimes
suspects.
Her fortune
On this quest
so far
Gifted
by some
Benevolent,
Omniscient
Power.
“Acquiescence”
And then
one day
she stopped
counting the days
since she
had stepped
aboard.
She had never considered
that cabin fever
or being castaway
could be
so terrible
“Home is where the heart is”
She whispers
to her shadow.
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