Photograph By Hope Handlin
My sailboat sliced through the inky
black
impervious, save for the effulgent light bouncing off it
For once, it was he that awaited the pending calamity
as I simply embraced the interminable peace
His face was a dark shadow while the
golden
sun highlighted mine
The sky exploded with oranges, reds, pinks
setting the once opaque water on
fire
His apprehension that night,
of things that brought me such peace,
may have been a harbinger for the eternal darkness
that was approaching in the distance
But that night
I allowed that
light
To swallow me
Consume my soul and the seething sea
And set me free
A Poem by Madelyn Kemler