[Critique Group 2] Emailing: Cottage Window Candle on the Shore--Brad's piece for 12-27-18 critique session.

[James]

Cottage Window Candle on the Shore
C By Brad Corallo
Word count 220

So many years-
this weary traveler's ship, 
sailing through dark unknown seas.

Do I see a tiny light on the shore?
Could it be?
That which I have sought for so long?
Is it my star to steer bye?
Have I wandered, storm tossed, for far too many years?
Do I arrive too late once again?
Or do her loving arms still await?
Can there truly be for me
 this scarce imagined home coming?

My ship draws closer.
Waves crash on the rocky shore.
Heart begins to pound.

Slowly, sky begins to lighten.
Yes, it is the home I left so long ago.
The tiny light brings me hope.
It is not abandoned. 

Resolving out of night, the ancient doc takes shape. 
Infused with longing, I steer her true.
Finally tying up at the weathered grey peer.
Exhausted though hopeful I disembark.
Moving over spray washed planks, I reach land.

Following a path, unknown though somehow familiar
I approach the cottage door. 
Suffused with a strange mixture of:
Doubt, hope, apprehension and excitement, I knock.
Suddenly the door is thrown open.
Her perfumed warm softness is in my arms.
And through our joined tears I hear her say
"oh joyous welcome, beyond all my fears and dreams, you are home!" 

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