Every since
men went down to the sea first in rafts or on logs
To brave the
currents, winds, waves, reefs and fog
One rule has
never over seamen weakened its grip
In time of
disaster, a captain is last to leave and may go down with his ship
The news
from South Korea is so tragic; it makes you want to wail and cry
So many
young students en route to a resort isle never made it and had to die
But what should
cause a parent’s blood to begin to boil
As more
bodies from the capsized ferry raises the death toll
Are photos
of the captain and some of the ferry’s crew being the first to from the ferry
flee
Safety for
them, but for the students, death by drowning, trapped by the freezing seas
The Koreans
moved quickly and the captain was quickly put under arrest
"Akin to
murder," the President of South Korea put it best
We will
learn soon what if anything the ferry hit and why she was on this course
But we may never
know why the rule of the sea the captain chose not to enforce
The students
are gone; no amount of punishment will bring them to their parents back
But tides of
justice when the captain leaves must be pursued, must never go slack.
Off into the future on different waters, winds and tides
When disaster strikes from responsibility a captain will not seek to hide.
© April
22, 2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet 
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