Malaysiana - Leatherback Turtle

coconut leaves rustle, running with the wind at at least 20 km per hour waves surge at an equally frantic speed - patriotic hands that repeatedly hold onto the beach with a roaring and thunderous voice to match their claim a giant turtle slowly emerges from the water, a dark shadow accenting the night with its heavy mound that plods through the night with its strenuous flippers the final touchdown in a thousand mile comeback each stride and lug forward reflect its love for the land that it belongs to it is the first comeback after many many years at sea and now for the noblest of chores in less than two hours, at least a hundred ping pong size eggs have gone into a hole it has dug a hole large enough to hold all its love for the land and you should see how tears keep rolling down its eyes as it thanks god it still remembers its way back to shower its gratitude to the land that had given him birth the giant turtle remembers how years ago it had crept out of its egg, shoveled away sand and without another thought made its precarious way to the freedom of the sea despite the brief encounter, it never never forgot the land it originated from, its smell, its winds, its sounds and has logged every inch it had swam to make that triumphant return today the hundred eggs hold its hundred wishes that this tradition be kept for as long as leatherback turtle exists plop plop plop the giant leatherback turtle plodding through the night