Stranded In The Ocean

I wake to the sound of waves,

Blue above and blue below.

No shore anywhere I look,

No place I know.

Salt is burning on my lips,

Something’s floating next to me.

I search my mind for anything— But there’s nothing there to see.

The water pulls me farther out,

The clouds are closing in.

I don’t know how I got here,

I don’t know where I’ve been.

I find a broken piece of wood,

A rope tied in a knot.

Someone built this thing to float— But someone left it here to

rot. A storm begins to rise.

How long have I been here?

How far from land?

I’m stranded in the ocean,

With nothing underneath. Just endless waves around me,

And darkness underneath. I’m stranded in the ocean,

And I don’t know who I am.

But somewhere past the horizon,

I can feel a bigger plan.

The storm tears across the sea,

Lightning cuts the night.

I hold onto the broken raft With everything I have.

Then something hits below.

The ocean goes still.

Too still.

I look beneath the surface,

And a light begins to glow.

Not a star. Not the moon.

Something underneath me. I should swim away,

But something pulls me down.

I remember. I’m stranded in the ocean,

But the water knows my name.

Every wave is pulling memories Back into my brain.

I’m stranded in the ocean,

And I’m starting to understand.

I wasn’t lost out here by accident—

I was sent here by a plan.

Beneath the ocean floor,

I find a door.

Steel beneath the darkness,

Waiting there before.

The same symbol.

The same light. Then a screen flickers on— And I hear a

voice:

“Subject three is awake.”

I’m stranded in the ocean,

But I’m not alone anymore.

The truth is underneath me,

Behind a thousand doors.

I lost the life I used to know— But I can finally

see it clear. We were never stranded.

We were chosen.

And somewhere beyond this

darkness, Two others are still waiting.

The screen goes black.

A door opens.

Somewhere far away— “Subject one is awake.”