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Unlikely Cohorts

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The wind roared heavy as it churned the sea
Thunder clapped and lightning broke through the clouds in flashes
Everything was becoming dark
There was a galleon bounding up and down in the treacherous waters
All aboard were shouting, heaving ropes, and bailing water
The timbers made sickening groans the men had never heard before
The waves grew taller, the sea impervious to their tears
And the sailors, with these tears in their eyes, bailed the salty water
Their bodies writhing and straining
Their pride cast to the wind

To save their ship or to face the treacherous depths alone
But the moment of salvation never came
A wave, towering high above, came down on the ship
The masts were downed The decks splintered and ripped apart
The men were thrown around the ragged planks, washed around their wooden cradle
They were helpless
They began to be overcome by the water
One by one, their hands slipped beneath
He took a desperate breath from the night and closed his eyes

He was thinking He realised if he has thinking, he was alive
His cheek was warm against sand
He opened his eyes and looked around The sun was high in the sky and blinding against the blue
He was in a desert
He slowly lifted himself up His clothes were torn and ragged
He was alone The dunes carried on as far as his eyes could see, and it was barren

He put one foot in front of the other
He stumbled at first, over the sand
He felt the silence
Apart from the soft hushing of the sand around his ankles
And the sound of his own breathing, there was nothing
He felt tiny against nature
He walked on for hours
Dune after dune
To the horizon
Night came

He sat crossed legged and let his hands fill with the warm rain
He drank the water, and it ran down his chest
He lay on his back, under stars
He heard scuttling behind him and turned around
Over the brow of a nearby dune he saw two large pincers
It was a Scorpion It had come to find him; it wanted to know him
It knew him all through the night and stung him in its embraces
Afterwards, he lay wasted

And the morning came again
He felt the heat and walked on
The horizon unchanging
And at night it happened and happened A Spider, A Wasp, A Snake
For forty days and forty nights he wandered and was known by every poison of the desert
He felt for them to begin with but began to harden to them
He began to look for them
On the fortieth day he saw on the horizon a man, through the mirage
The poison ran from his eyes, and he was saved

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