THE
BLACK TIDE: An Illustrated Story by Judith Inky-Wings McNicol
Page 3
The Black Tide, page 3
Soon, it was too late...
The dark ocean currents
had borne away whole
swathes of memory,
desire, insights,
knowledge, even most of
my dreams...
My mind had been swept away.
Now it felt
quite
EMPTY.
Void.
No horizon.
A cosmic wilderness.
I was trapped in the Tower
of the Unknowing.