Lord of Water Playing with Water

A story about life

Chapter 5 - Playing with Water

I just love living at the ocean and being surrounded by water every moment of my life. From the moment I open my eyes, I feel a connection and I am at home. The sound of the waves tells me exactly what is happening and I know I am right at the pulse of planet earth. 

There are those days when you can’t hear a single thing at all. It is like the ocean is completely in silent mode. But when you step onto the dune top, there it is. Six to eight foot swells just peeling of left and right. Clean crystal cylinders. Quiet as a mouse!

Then other days and all you can hear is the noise of waves crashing on the beach. And it still fools me every time. Just can’t help being optimistic when I hear the ocean. But step over to the dune top and there it is. Onshore crud.

Today was one of those days. I was sitting at the table taking my time with breakfast and doing my normal thing playing with a little water on the table. This is my secret game. I don’t call it magic, I call it my friend and sole mate. I love drawing faces with just enough water on the end of my finger. I draw faces of people I know and the water starts to take form. The lips and cheeks start to take form and on a good day, the eyes even come into shape with a hint of colour and the look of real life in the person’s eye.

I was just doodling and thinking about Mum. From the photos and what dad has told me, I just doodle and the water reads my mind. I though earlier in life that it was my ability to do this and I am sure that this is true. But what started to come more true to me was the life animated in the water and the ability that the water itself had to read my mind.

I was just playing and swirling her hair and cheeks and curve on the side of her face. I stepped into another universe of communication and although I was in the room, I was in this universe with my Mum and it was one of the most real moments of my life. 

Her face fully came to life and with not a single word spoken, her telepathic communication told be clearer than if she were sitting at the table with me. “I am here Shane. I am real and I am closer to you that you may even know. We are all born again into this world and I am no exception. That is the able ones like you and me and the millions of beautiful soles that are walking this earth today.”

“We are in the middle of a holy war. A war of such magnitude that has never been fought before. We see it all around us in the safety of our homes. It seems like it is happening “over there”, but it’s not. It is right at our doorstep. You are not paranoid with what you conclude. This is a holy war and this planet is losing it from the top to the bottom.”

“You will recognise me shortly and like this we will not need to communicate any more. I am at your side and you will know who I am without a word ever having to be spoken about it.”

“I love you Shane and know that you are worthy of what has to be done and your part in saving this precious water planet that is so worth being saved. I am so proud of you and know what you have will become true. I now stand to fight this battle beside you.”

Her face took form in the most animated and full dimension that I have ever held with water. Ever before! Her cheeks swelled and her lips curled as she gave the warmest and loving smile I had ever received in all of my life times past.

The water turned flat on the table and I found myself just doodling in shapes with my breakfast bowl still only half gone.

I wrapped up breakfast and as I was leaving for what was just another day at school, felt an incredible surge of purpose and life force fill my entire body. Bigger than my body. I felt that I was reaching far out into the ocean, to the cliff tops and sandy beaches along the coast lines and into the water inlets that curved deep inland being continuously replenished by the rainfall and the water tables of the land.

Dad was loading the truck as I walked out the front and he looked completely different. I felt as though he was about to just float off the ground and whatever it was that I knew had been sitting on his shoulders for as long as I have been with him was gone. 

He closed the back door on the truck and turned to give me a hug. 

"I love you!” he said so freely and as he smiled a perfect tear rose up and fell from the corner of his eye. 

For me, this was the first time that I had really seen my dad as himself. No screens, no father son barriers, just him. What a beautiful guy.

“I love you too dad!”

And turned to head off to school knowing that my life and in fact this planet was never going to be the same again.

Lord of Water a story about life

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