Photo: http://www.dailymail.co.uk
Four Mexican fishermen who were adrift for one month, rescued by Mexican navy 1,200 miles from their planned route.
The SS Integrity Adrift
Eagerly we motored out and pushed beyond the heads,
to way past any sight of land,
to where the fish are known.
At some point,
too early,
the light became constrained.
As darkness pressed our souls,
confused,
we turned for home.
And if that wasn’t enough,
someone said in panicked tone
“We’re taking water now.”
And so began committee time,
clause by clause a values game,
what should we throw out?
So went the rods and then the bait,
a tackle box or two.
desperately we ate our lunch
and skulled the beer down,
whatever helped us float.
Eventually we plugged the hole and bailed dry,
but now which way to go?
“Dunno mate” larconically said,
“We’ve thrown the compass out.”
We took turns to steer the night
so sleep could claim a few.
But when at last the sun appeared
despair set in,
home was nowhere near.
To make it worse the fuel ran out,
but at least the shore was close.
We paddled hard with all our might,
the current pushing hard,
though hard we tried the boat gave up,
and land was passing by.
Tired now,
our hearts and boat are one.
But to understand what’s happened here
you’ll have to catch my drift.
©Paul Cannon
Paul,
pvcann.com
parallax 
adrift we float
one last waning hope
a faint breeze to catch
onto salvation latch
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Lovely response Sandy, I really appreciate that, so well put.
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Your verse inspired me to write.
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Thank you for the compliment Sandy
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Certainly.
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Such experiences are not really amazing. 😉 Well written Paul! Michael
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No they’re not. Poem works at to levels, as per the photo ther eis a real element of experience, but at the philosophical level, it raises the question as to when we might wake up to what is happening in our world. Many thanks Michael, good to hear from you.
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Very intense.
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Yes, and very grim given our innability to see clearly what is in front of us, I think that boat will drift for soem time, sadly.
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Yes and the words stayed in my mind for a while.
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Thank you for sharing Rupali, glad it had that impact.
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It was good to be rescued!!:D
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Ha, if only, I think that boats out for a while, till they wake up really. 🙂
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Ahhh…I can’t understand…..they are somethig Bad???(T^T)
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No, they are representative of the general population – who have lost their way, lost their compass, and are drifting through life 🙂
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No hope there, but they will convince themselves otherwise.
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They will for sure, this week’s shennanigans on the hill hae proven that, but also the voting malaise.
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Oh my😱 scary experience…. Thank goodness you’re okay, & well written
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Well I’ve had an experience almost like that – couldn’t se land and the motor died, fortunately we did running repairs and got back safe. That was scary enough.
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Really dramatic. There is more of a chance at surviving a watercraft failure than failure from an airplane.
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Oh most definitely so, why it’s so good to go by sea 🙂
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Thank Goodness, it’ll ended well
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Yes, could have been disastrous.
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A beautiful write. You are obviously a seafarer at heart. (-:
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I am, I haven’t done enough of it though, but have dabbled, and have had a scary moment in real life. Thank you
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beautifully written … let them stay adrift until they get sense 🙂
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Yes, an ode to the politically deaf and blind, you picked it well 🙂
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