Spaced Out Castaway

Here I am alone on this remote desert island

The sun is hot and blinding

There are plenty of fruit and nuts so I will not starve

I don't know if I will ever be found

I was abandoned here by modern day pirates

They approached my yacht using powerboats

They had five boats in all

The were all armed with automatic rifles

There was a safe on board the yacht which contained half a million pounds

They made me open it and hand over the money

They tied up the crew and pushed me onto one of the powerboats

Then they headed towards this island

All I have is a knife, pen and paper and a solar powered mp3 player

The mp3 player has only one album recorded on it

That album is Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon

It seems an appropriate choice given the situation

I listen over and over to Brain Damage

And I consider my state of mind

Long periods of isolation can be destabilising

My mental health is not too good at the best of times

Sometimes I imagine I see ships in the distance

But it is only my imagination playing tricks on me

I have been here more than a year now

I survive by eating fruit and catching fish in the sea

I spend time listening to the music of Pink Floyd

And recording my thoughts in my diary

It is easy to lose sense of time

I listen to The Great Gig In The Sky

And think about death and what it would be like

Will I ever see my family again before I die?

It is a strange lifestyle stranded here

I imagine psychedelic slideshows as I listen to the music

It has a transcendental impact on my mind

I am elevated to another plane

I have moments of blissful peace

If it was not for my family I could accept my fate

Being in touch with nature has an uplifting affect on the spirit

But I have another life to return to

I imagine I am a hippie traveller on a great adventure

Smoking grass and having intense hallucinogenic dreams

Being spaced out is one way of handling this ordeal

I wait for a ship to come and take me off this island

Meanwhile I listen to the music and dream strange dreams

A spaced out castaway hoping some day to find his way home