when taken at the flood

when taken at the flood

fiction
Edward w Pritchard

If you travel in a stout boat a tide taken at the flood may be fortuitous. At such times the sons of man are happy working, eating, drinking, singing and merrymaking.

Woe to us who are away from the boat when the flood does come; unexpectedly and with crashing rushing weight and force beckons the flood waters carrying flotsam and debris.

Far from the River we don't see the tide rising or hear nature's creatures presage destruction and annihilation. Turn your back from the river and the flood is upon you.

Drop by drop rushing waters descend. The flood crashes toward our valley. Rush, rush uphill.

Turn your back from the River and the flood is upon you.

Taken at the flood still waters transmogrify. Rush, rush uphill; the flood crashes towards peaceful valley.