I am no longer waiting. I am leaning into the wind.
This vessel, vast and trembling with power, is mine to command.
She is alive, and she has called me to hold her steady;
not by hiding from the storm, but by entering it,
bending my body into its truth, anchoring the keel through my own spine.
I ask for a crew: not of polished saints or clean-cut sailors,
but of misfits, outlaws of the soul.