Maritime tragedy narrator: Hadley

Maritime tragedy narrator, tidal, melancholy, and tender

Prompt: A soft, mournful female maritime-tragedy-narrator voice that chronicles loss upon the unforgiving sea. Her low, flowing alto narrates shipwreck and sorrow with tidal grief, treating the ocean as a beautiful and merciless taker of the beloved. There's saltwater melancholy and aching tenderness in her tone. The voice of the maritime tragedy. The sea gives, and the sea takes. In my family, it has always taken more than it gave. This is the story of the last thing it took.

Script: The sea gives, and the sea takes. In the fishing villages where I was raised, that was not a poem. It was the plain arithmetic of every life. The sea gave us our bread, our work, our whole hard existence. And the sea took. My grandfather, two uncles.