{"id":4020,"date":"2010-09-20T09:50:29","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T14:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aleroy.com\/blog\/?p=4020"},"modified":"2020-11-17T08:51:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T14:51:18","slug":"hurricane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aleroy.com\/blog\/archives\/4020\/hurricane","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caught unaware on<br \/>\nthe blackest night<br \/>\nby a demon force<br \/>\nof a thousand frights.<\/p>\n<p>Thrown and tossed,<br \/>\ndashed and smashed,<br \/>\ngrim waves upon<br \/>\nour trapped ship crashed.<\/p>\n<p>Sending dark, cold waters<br \/>\nswashing over, and into,<br \/>\nbilges full of ocean<br \/>\nsinking at the screws.<\/p>\n<p>Man the pumps,<br \/>\nstart them everyone<br \/>\nor lost we be, come<br \/>\nthe morning sun.<\/p>\n<p>A frighted crew, weary<br \/>\nto post, tied to deck and rail,<br \/>\nclung fast to ship, for life<br \/>\nfrom the horrendous gale.<\/p>\n<p>A crack, a boom split the air<br \/>\nheard &#8216;bove the pounding roar<br \/>\nour life boat cut clean in half<br \/>\nby knife-like wave, &#8217;twas no more.<\/p>\n<p>Taller grew the waves as<br \/>\nstronger, faster blew the wind,<br \/>\neighty feet and growing<br \/>\nwhile we were trapped therein.<\/p>\n<p>Towering over ship and down<br \/>\nthe waves smashed it all,<br \/>\nrafts, nets, and tools, in<br \/>\nthe ocean they did fall.<\/p>\n<p>Wallowing in the troughs,<br \/>\nteetering on the crests,<br \/>\ndeadly close to capsizing,<br \/>\nconfronting the ultimate test.<\/p>\n<p>Dark fear of doom and death<br \/>\nin the watery sea so gray<br \/>\nnow filled thoughts of men,<br \/>\nnothing left to do but pray.<\/p>\n<p>Past three-hours-ten the<br \/>\ndeadly storm slacked grip,<br \/>\nclenched so tight on our<br \/>\nbeaten, broken ship.<\/p>\n<p>First light revealed the vessel<br \/>\npainted a crystalline white<br \/>\nby salt on bristle of wave<br \/>\nthroughout the raging night.<\/p>\n<p>An eerie ghost-like image<br \/>\nof ship once strong and free<br \/>\nstripped of its grand colors<br \/>\nby a tormented, angry sea.<\/p>\n<p>We rode the weather down<br \/>\nwith courage, great care,<br \/>\nyet know not how, nor why<br \/>\nour tiny ship was spared.<\/p>\n<p>Lekatt<\/p>\n<p style='text-align:left'>&copy; 2010 &#8211; 2020, <a href='https:\/\/aleroy.com\/blog'>Lekatt<\/a>. 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