Canoe Camping

What an unholy trinity in
cold, wind and rain, with the
audacity to simultaneously
gift the August wilderness lake
with their malign presence.
Misery incarnate overtakes the 
nature lovers who long
anticipated a brief sojourn to 
savour the challenges faced by 
their ancestors answering life's 
anomalous opportunities to forge 
a new beginning in a savage, 
uncolonized land. Those pioneers 
survived and so too will those 
whom nature greets with grim 
obstacles as they learn to fend 
for themselves, coping with a 
brief introduction to adopting 
rudimentary skills of survival.