Welcoming The Loneliness
By coyote
The moonlight trails I walk now fade behind me... so many paths I've never trod before. Still, they seem to greet me as old friends, and without them I'd be a lonely man. Empty spaces that have never felt a foot-fall, but this I seek for these are lonely lands. No patch of green or blue of pond to draw an eye, and I welcome the solitude in which to wander. In daylight, shadow comes from scrub brush canopies, and coffee in the evening is the daily prayer. Dead sleep from noon time heat is all the rest I need, but night time breezes bring the memories again... Avoiding human contact and existing in my prison, becoming one more fugitive not wanted anywhere. Old memories that should have stayed back in my past, and walls as big as fear still hold me in. So on I trod to lose the feelings that vex me... I take the sharp and twisting turns to shake them loose. But nothing makes this curse of mine stay put, and tonight I'll wander over one more fading trail. Written August 23rd, 2001 © on Aug 23 2001 03:12 PM PST 0 • 1
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"The moonlight trails I walk now fade behind me......"