Sail Boats Forever

Sail Boats Forever

“I wanted freedom, open air, and adventure. I found it on the sea.”

— Alaine Gerbault, French Sailor

Dr Abe V Rotor

Sailboats in acrylic by AVRotor c. 2004

What a crude game, you may say,

Of my ancestors’ sailboats catching

The breeze, docking the gusts,

Edging the rocks, sans compass

Or sextant, map and telescope.

What prize is at stake? Not a trophy.

Yet the instinct craves for a prize

Like in The Old Man and the Sea;

A prize he found, mindless of people.

Who saw nothing of his adventure.

Let the sailboats play in the wind

And water, let alone an old boat

At rest, sitting on rock like an old man,

Standing guard over the young, who too,

Shall someday play the same old game. ~