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    The touch of the trawl...

    Saturday, July 5, 2008, 01:06 PM EST [General]
    Posted By: Marta

                                                       



    "It is just me.
    I couldn't sleep." -
    I persuaded G to take me to the sea.
    Okay, girl - he said.
    He was always talking with me in the way as if l had been a baby.
    I didn't like that.
    The night was chilly and balmy.
    We could see the distant lights on the Pier in the pitch black night,
    shivered and listened the dashes of the waves.
    The sea was magic at night.
    As l was walking barefoot on the smooth sand.
    I suddenly felt a trawl under my sole. It was unexpected.
    The strong material cut into my skin of my foot so hard that l stumbled against it.
    I fell onto the ground and felt the sharp trawl tightly screwing around my toes.
    It was only less than a second.
    But in that very moment all of the creatures in the world's seas flooded
    into my mind encroaching into my soul and inside of my own flesh
    l felt all of the pains of the many many innocent entities
    who have ever died in those trawls. The touch of the trawl...
    The feeling was eerie and ancient at the same time.
    Dolphins, prawns, jelly fish, tunas, mackerels and others.
    I felt their pain inside me so harshly as if l had been in their place.
    I felt their torment and l saw them inside me.
    They wanted to escape.
    At that moment all sea-creatures swarmed into my mind,
    into my soul at once, in swollen clusters,
    forcing me to think of the sea foods on the shelves of the supermarkets,
    in several delicious sauces, in nicely decorated tins,
    what l myself also would buy
    with much pleasure for a cool supper with a glass of white wine till then...
    But in that moment l thought l could never buy any of those
    spoiling items anymore. I felt deep sadness and l am sure
    l won't forget the “touch of the trawl” feeling
    for a good while in my life...
    Beside this the ocean was really marvellous. A wonder.
    I was walking along and watching the millions of changeable colours,
    those, what the darkness allowed me to see
    and the shapes of the waves as they have been undulating
    with the same wheezing since the thousands of the years.
    I was carefully listening the waves...
    there was other after another in every new seconds,
    yet there have never been the same, it was fantastic and fascinating.
    I thought of the sounds of those wonderful birds
    as they are drifting high above the town circling above the colorful roofs,
    swimming across the sea in the air in a chaos
    but nevertheless in a perfect order....don't move even their wings
    which are so white, neat and bright as if it even weren't true.
    I could hear their strong voices in my ear as they are shrieking,
    and l thought, this is all only mine now.
    I can't share it with anybody.
    The photos show nothing about it.
    And if you ask me: “What was the sea like?” -
    l will probably answer you very politely
    something like this: “Oh, yes, it was very nice. We have had a wonderful time.
    Thank you for your asking.”
    And you won't know anything about my experiences.
    About my real experiences...
    All you will get is some faded photo and some uncertain muttering
    about the sleepy whisperings of the undulating North Sea...
    And about the dreams...
    ...which are never die.







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