DEVILS ISLAND

Restless in my Park
Paradise or Devils Island?
Can I accept freedom in a cell
Or must I jump limits
To find myself in yet a bigger cage?
Should I give up, trying to escape
Be content and rest for a change?
Is my imagination taking me to the edge
Of another cliff, surf pounding the rocks below
The horizon, a pencil line containing
A sun glittered table of blue?
How to climb down
Without slipping, without falling?
Somebody, just outside the breakers
Is waiting in a small boat
To save me, to take me home.

c) Jan G. Otterstrom F.
    April 6, 2007
    Palmares, Costa Rica