I leaned against the slippery wet rubber of my raft
drifting endlessly into bitter infinities
as the wind lashed, the cold bit, the darkness enveloped,
and the wet seeped in from all sides,
I looked across the ever changing ocean and saw that warm incandescent light
like an embers in a sea of ash
and just barely when the waves willed it
i could see into the ship that radiated your warmth
into the tiny window with a light on
into the entire world of you
writing a to-do list
