He was a father of ten working as a fisherman to support his family. What happened on the night of February 17, 1957? Did his heart fail to beat and did he fall out of his boat, plummeting to the deep, dark, demising blue, unable to return to the surface? Was he tugged out of his boat by a 250 pound ahi, grasping to the pole, like a water skier gripping his tow bar? Was he distanced so far away from his boat that he wasn’t able to swim back and so was he eaten by hungry, unknown creatures? Was he trying to grab something out of the water, but instead the water grabbed him, pulling him away from his boat into the horizon? Or was he simply just clumsy and fell out of his boat, smashing his skull on a coral head, slowly, slowly losing consciousness, only to awaken in heaven?
The Mystery of Great Grandpa Hashiba
He was a father of ten
working as a fisherman
to support his family.
What happened on the night of February 17, 1957?
Did his heart fail to beat
and did he fall out of his boat,
plummeting to the deep, dark, demising blue,
unable to return to the surface?
Was he tugged out of his boat
by a 250 pound ahi,
grasping to the pole,
like a water skier gripping his tow bar?
Was he distanced so far away from his boat
that he wasn’t able to swim back
and so was he eaten by hungry, unknown creatures?
Was he trying to grab something out of the water,
but instead the water grabbed him,
pulling him away from his boat
into the horizon?
Or was he simply just clumsy
and fell out of his boat,
smashing his skull on a coral head,
slowly,
slowly
losing consciousness,
only to awaken in heaven?