To See Forever

To see forever I left the ship at the industrial part of the island my tour of duty was over and took a taxi to the other side to take a ferry to town. At the café near the ferry landing, I drank a few beers glad my work was done thought about what to do in the coming days of freedom from the confinement of life at sea. Since I had hours to wait, I bought a fishing line, hook and a sinker, as bait, I used banana skin (it was all I had) The water was so glass clear it appeared limitless I could see the fishes swimming about and the seagrass slowly waved with the mild current. Bending forward, so fascinating looking down into a watery world, with water so pure, it was as if the fish was swimming in the clouds, thought of the Māori fable when the sky and water was one, and life had yet to be born. Somehow in my dreaming trance, I fell into the sea, people came running, falsely commiserating over my mishap. In the backroom of the café, I changed into dry clothes.