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Hello? Is anyone there? We're in a lonely vessel on seas of a size beyond the parameters of what we can imagine. We're a lost ship riding tides, tearing through blue mountains- Always against the wind, always in search of home shores that we've lost track of on our maps. Our charts tell us which direction to head but we never see the horizon change. We can't remember anything but this, This constant sail toward.. we don't know. We have no goal, no memory of home, but something tells us this is a journey, and aren't those supposed to have a destination? We see bleeps on our radar, The same size and shape as our metal shell, but our trajectories never meet. Your heart beat beats out a morse code SOS but no one hears the message. Full-stop. There's too much interference, too many seagulls stop our signal, squealing and wheeling in those empty clouded skies. Full-stop. The waves are too high, The spray too loud. There's a storm coming, always. The clouds advance. Full-stop. Too much Too many Too high Too loud A storm. Full-stop. Has anyone seen the shore? Have you seen the birds land? Where is this home? This mother that is supposed to provide for us? Full-stop. The waves are bearing in like walls of barren grey doom. The sky shrinks The ground shifts You slide. You send your final dot and dash cry out, out to the greyness whipping you around. Too much. Too many. Too high. Too loud. The sea, too wide. A storm. Full-stop.
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Jan 14, 2015
Jan 14, 2015 at 3:20 AM UTC
Full-Stop
Hello? Is anyone there? We're in a lonely vessel on seas of a size beyond the parameters of what we can imagine. We're a lost ship riding tides, tearing through blue mountains- Always against the wind, always in search of home shores that we've lost track of on our maps. Our charts tell us which direction to head but we never see the horizon change. We can't remember anything but this, This constant sail toward.. we don't know. We have no goal, no memory of home, but something tells us this is a journey, and aren't those supposed to have a destination? We see bleeps on our radar, The same size and shape as our metal shell, but our trajectories never meet. Your heart beat beats out a morse code SOS but no one hears the message. Full-stop. There's too much interference, too many seagulls stop our signal, squealing and wheeling in those empty clouded skies. Full-stop. The waves are too high, The spray too loud. There's a storm coming, always. The clouds advance. Full-stop. Too much Too many Too high Too loud A storm. Full-stop. Has anyone seen the shore? Have you seen the birds land? Where is this home? This mother that is supposed to provide for us? Full-stop. The waves are bearing in like walls of barren grey doom. The sky shrinks The ground shifts You slide. You send your final dot and dash cry out, out to the greyness whipping you around. Too much. Too many. Too high. Too loud. The sea, too wide. A storm. Full-stop.
messages lost in the sea's static
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Jan 14, 2015
Jan 14, 2015 at 3:20 AM UTC
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