path

you don't even know what's down there!

    i can hear the crashing waves...

the waters are rough!

    maybe, on the surface...

you can't see how deep it goes; you could shatter on the shallow bottom!

    with eyes closed, i can feel how deep this way goes...

for what purpose? your adventure, risk, for what good end?

    for rumors of Unimaginable Treasures, in the depths below...

there are Monsters in the depths!

    some monsters are ten inches tall, with fluffy tails and floppy ears...

and some monsters are twelve feet long, with vicious fangs and barbed tails!

    then the glory of the battle is greater, even if at long odds, for the kind of treasures i secretly know...

imaginary or unreachable treasures!

    here is the beginning of a trail...

the trails of bread crumbs lead to a thousands different lairs of a thousands different disappointments and a thousands different tortures!

    sometimes the Way is so clear even my dim little light can find it...

but how deep can your light go?

    i have no fear. i can find my way to the bottoms of the worlds...

if the path is so long, you will never return!

    no...

    not as the same man...
    i never have...