At Antane's suggestion, Frodo's anticipation of his reunion with Sam, as follow-up to "My Treasure"......
~*~Somewhere a Ship~*~
Somewhere a ship rides waves of mystery a vast cradle rocking her sails blithely swelling in warping wind and soaring sun, marbled moon and staggered stars her hull girt with greatness, her prow blessed and bright. Hither she sails, chased at times by dolphins and marlins, whales and sharks who follow curious and quick as children after a circus-cart.
And here I stand, waiting the wind in my hair the sand at my toes the stars at my throat music in my mantle wavelets in my eyes bells in my knees which feel no years but would dance as a bridal couple on this crowned day. Would I could be the first that you see!
And now I behold you just as I remember despite the baths of years that would launder your image from my yellowing sight. No ship ever had such a gem at her prow. And I wave and skip, my loved ones looking on in worried delight catching my joy in basins of gladness as it overflows in an endless fountain as you step down your feet forgetting their chains of pain and age...
And all at once we fling and fly and crash and crush and weep and whirl and laugh and leap until all around us are ablaze with the lightning of old souls the thunder of expectation the rainfall of reminiscing and the poetry of endless quiet walking on the diamond shores of eternal fellowship.
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