Repacked my sea chest at 6am and it feels like coming home

Couldn't sleep past five so I took everything out of the old chest and put it back in the exact order I kept it on the Meridian. Felt a bit daft doing it, a ritual for a life that's over, but then the morning light hit the brass fittings and I remembered why I did it every time we weighed anchor. Neatness is just a prayer you can perform with your hands.