I *love* direction! The things you associate with it are interesting. West on a world map, or west generally? 'Cos on a world map, west points to a different place for me than to you ... *laffs* Funny, though, because fantasy-wise, west also is full of towers and seas for me ...
I enjoyed the fact that I felt I could see your mind's exploration in this - the paths it worked its way towards. There was a main good thing and a main bad thing that occured to me. The good - the things you were heading off towards will make for brilliant reading - all the wanderlust and the oceans and the fantasy etc ... great stuff. I especially appreciated 'sandalwood' (yum!) and jade towers, and 'Then, then I'll sit, curled up on a ledge, and look out at the water ...'
The bad? This served to make an fofering of something, but disappoints because it ended ... in the sense that it could have really been explored deeper, expanded and such. Note the last reviewer wanted to know if there was to be more. That's how it feels - like some kind of prologue. Also - it seemed to jump from things to things with no explanations offered, and this frustrated me cos whilst you can do that in a story, it's unsatisfying in poetry ... *hint hint* :D I think what I'm trying to say is I would love to see you expand on something like this, because I believe it would be brilliant. There you go. You teased the mind with that and then stopped - criminal ... *sniggers*

Poetic and Starkly beautiful Is there more? If so I look forward to reading it.