One day, before he was to leave on a very long trip, he led me blind folded to what he said was his current mission. When I opened my eyes, he revealed the sight of a remarkable tower he built, all by himself out of beautiful stone for me. He told me that it was for me, to climb up and see all corners of the island, to search for his boat to race down to him. I gripped him so hard, I think he turned a slight pink before I let go of him. We talked all the way down to the dock, and just a moment before he got on, he gave me my last present of the day. A beautiful necklace with three seashells, he told me, for all the days he had been gone for numerous days. He whispered to me that every shore he shall reach for the rest of his life, he will choose one special shell and send it to me as reminder that he hasn’t forgotten. Again, I hugged and kissed him one last time before he left. But at that moment I didn’t know what was to be foreseen. I played a game of waiting, multiple days and nights, of course receiving the shells for every shore Marko had reached. But this one trip was unlike any other.
I played a game of long waiting. Waiting for his return. Every night I counted the seashells on my necklace, but i had stopped beacuse it had become too large and heavy for me to grieve. Years had gone by. I had started to become tired of running up and down the steps of tower. Untill I saw a boat come by, with a sailor of whom I thought was my love. But it was another man. A man, of which I haven’t spoken to one after Marko’s retreat, had caught the last bit of yearning love in me, and returned some to me. I spent many nights with him until I fell for his spell. I had stopped counting the days and nights of Marko’s absence. I gave another chance at love.
Now, I am an old woman, the wife of Peter and the mother of a beautiful young daughter, Monika. I have grown up and away from my crumbling young love to a life of devotion and promise. I let Monika go up into the tower as child to search for other sailors as I had found Peter.
Monika, after a few years of searching up and down on the tower, she had come back to me with a ring on her finger and a handsome young man. He was a wonderful gentleman, and it didn't take me long to grow fond of him. But when I met his father,my feelings changed. It was Marko, as old as I was, with another woman and his child, my Monika’s fiancé. Love comes and goes, and I had learned to accept their marriage, but never quite caught the meaning of Marko being family. With love comes hatred and hatred comes love. I guess Marko too, had gotten tired of playing the waiting game.
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