Monday, 4 May 2015

El Dorado

                                                                                    Photo  prompt-© Dee Lovering

He was not bitter with the turn of events.

When they had embarked on the journey they knew that it could end in a disaster for everyone who had tried to reach El Dorado had perished.

Most of his friends had succumbed to diseases. But he would not stop.

A storm broke out and the ship tossed like a cork in the waves.

When he woke up he was on the land and all alone. He got up and stumbled on.

Out of nowhere a glorious, gilded man appeared before him. Although wonderstruck, he felt the stab in his heart.
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8 comments:

  1. Very interesting :-)

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  2. Life can take unexpected turn of events. What we wonder and what happens are always diagonally opposite.

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    1. Thanks Saru, but even then El Dardo allures us

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  3. The myth of El Dorado has taken so many lives and has given rise to numerous stories.... liked the way you ended it... :-)

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  4. Well done, IB. You had me looking up El Dorado.

    Shalom,

    Rochelle

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