Lost & found

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I woke up 

Confused and dazed 

In a foreign land 

Covered entirely with sand

A few humans helped me 

Arise from my cocoon 

They had found me 

Buried deep inside this unknown land 

Where was I? 

Was I lost? 

Is this where I belonged? 

Or a place I was transported to? 

God knows! All I could see was sand!

Sand in front of me, 

Sand behind me, 

Sand around me

Sand all over me. 

I wanted to go home! 

I could hear the shore 

I could smell the saltiness 

I could sense I was in a beach!

But where was this place? 

Where was my mother?

Did she abandon me?

I wanted to know  

And so I started on my journey 

Taking tiny steps 

I inched towards the shore

Making pretty prints with my paddles 

I was going to explore

The big blue, all by myself 

Curious to find answers 

To know who I was! 

It felt strange

To leave this land 

To go to an unchartered territory, 

With predators and peril lurking 

With every stroke, 

I went deeper 

And I felt the jolt get more intense 

Tossing me topsy turvy and flipping me from side to side

As I surfed through the third wave, 

I managed to surface above the foamy froth,

And I glanced at the sandy shore, 

And whispered, “I’ll be back home”.