The Allegories

The Gubern’s Ship

Once there was a sailor, a woman, sailing the seas with her boat alongside the men’s ships. Every men and women of every ship dreams to set foot upon the captain’s quarters and call it their own. Unlike all of them, the woman has no such thought for she was the captain of her boat. Nonetheless, what she has is still a boat and every shipmen and every shipwomen laughed at her. “Look at the poor girl!” they say, “She has no ship and a crew. A woman trying to steal the men’s ship’s glory using an old and shabby boat!” and all laughed at her ‘incompetence’. “Hey!” a man yelled, a captain with his blue overcoat and white beard overlooked at her with his deep blue eyes. “Tell me! Where have you got the courage and sail with the mightiest captains of the seas?” the captain asked. “Benighted!” some of the men said and laughed. Disregarding such comments, the captain continued, “I have not seen anyone, especially a woman that has such ignorance to even dream of captaining her own ship. If your shabby boat may even be considered a ship!” and all those who can hear laughed while those who can’t laughed along.

The woman with her deep brown eyes looked at those men and women sailing using the ships with different heights, with their own captains, and their own crews. All have dreamt of being a captain and so, the captain must be cunning to earn the crew’s trust and be merciless to defend the title he has. “All...” she says while she think no one listens, “All were blinded by the heights and forgot about the sea beneath them.” However, she was wrong. There is someone that heard her words: the captain of the biggest ship, a ship that has an indestructible force and owned the title as one of the pillars of sailing, the Gubern’s ship. The ship was one of the oldest and earliest sailors of the seas who, as for today, the only one that knows the true reason of sailing: ‘to understand the sea’. Upon hearing the woman’s words, everyone on the ship was baffled. “How did she know the information only the Gubern’s ship’s crew knows?” and along with this thought is the suspicion that someone betrayed the rule of the Gubern’s ship: ‘Not to tell, not a word, about the knowledge only the ship holds’. Every men and every women on the Gubern’s ship looked at the captain and the captain declares: “Sink the woman’s ship.” And while all the other men were still laughing, a cannon’s shot resounded and planks and woods scattered which led everyone to silence. The woman’s boat is destroyed by the cannon of the greatest force, the Gubern’s Ship.

There was no sign of the woman who sails with the now broken boat and everyone left with fear and doubts in their hearts. “Why did the greatest ship destroyed a mere boat? Why did they have such interest to sink a boat? What does the boat holds?” All this were asked by many but no one dared say out loud. “They are still the mightiest force. If they have the capacity to mercilessly kill a boat with no defenses, certainly they will have no second thoughts about ruining those who has force.”

All those ships above the water continued sailing while the woman of the boat sink at the deepest sea. Slowly and consistently she sunk. She saw the world above her, and now she sees the world around her, full of life and competition, still. She continued sinking and reached the twilight zone, she now can’t see anything around her however, she can still feel the changing currents made by creatures living in the deep sea; current changes which, as she sink, grows larger and larger indicating that the deeper she goes, the mightiest the creature. Some time passed and she hit the bottommost of the sea. Her eyes now can see the world around and above. Nothing to be seen below on the ground and so she can focus about the life around and above her. She saw that the mightiest were on the deepest waters and on the topmost are the weakest. From the bottom, one can see all those happening above without wondering what’s beneath while those above keeps trying to gain more height, to reach higher, that they ruin those around them and forgot those below.

When she understood, few men and women came to her, walking at the bottom of sea. “Now,” they say “it’s good that there’s still someone who holds the knowledge. However, we can’t pass it to them can’t we?” they continued while looking above. And the woman said. “I’m afraid not.”

-L.V. Mijares

(06-02-18)

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