100 word challenge - Darcey

Imagine a glowing light in the darkness, a towering beacon, a magnificent lighthouse: now forget what you have imagined as the 'Grand' Harbour Lighthouse, Fish Fluke Point, Ross Island, Canada is nothing of the sort. It crumbles,a decaying mess as the land on which it balances is slowly reclaimed by the stormy sea. Once it guided sailors to safety (my grandpa said),spinning its beams of light across the vast black marble ocean.Today its creaking frame holds only memories: a child swinging in his hammock, an old man descending the spiral staircase as the lantern snaps to black...