Sinbad

Sinbad
is just one of the sailors
taking to the sea
not knowing
if he is looking ahead,
or just leaving behind, behind.

Straining eyes
peering from the bow
looking for new lands
new adventures
but first
riding the intermnable
ebb and flow of the waves

feeling the full masted sails
pulling
the bob of the ship
sending the mind upward
pulling the body downward
locking both
in a struggle for control.

"That way be Dragons"
claims the blind fortune teller
who sees only the future
spending too much time crying
to predict.