616. Marja

Marja stands alone on the sandy beach or up on the cliff top looking out to sea her dark hair and blue dress blowing in the wind her grey eyes trying to pierce the horizon She waits for her beloved to return so they can be happily married raising a family in their own home living in joy and peace She spends most of her days on the lookout only going home with the setting sun she'd be back with the rising sun with only the fiercest storms keeping her at home She doesn't know his ship was lost in a storm that he was dragged down with it as it sank still she waits day after day even as the weeks turned into months Then one day she fell from the cliff top and fell to her death onto the rocks below no one heard her final cries as they were wiped out by the ocean Marja's spirit still stands in the same spots weeping and shaking with grief still waiting for her love to come back to her even though he can never return