On a field as plain as the dark sky before a furious storm, i lie alone with my thoughts.
They are quite many, one contradicting the other, conversing among themselves, not minding me,
a spectator in the chaos we call life.
A straw of green grass tickles my tongue and hides away between the hallways of my white teeth. My hands
behind my head, supporting my neck, and my legs crossed one on the other; my view is the sky, and my bed
is the world.
It is soft, but not as soft as to let me fall asleep with ease. Its mountains and rivers shape around
my body with effortless grace.
I am the one and only who can quiet my thoughts and wish away my fears.
What is the world, if not a playground for my intelligence? It offers me doubts and hope, and sometimes it
even slips me some joy; to keep wanting more.
I can never quench my thirst of the unknown. It surrounds me; it is me.
When i open my eyes, all i see is darkness. There is nothing else I’d want to see. It’s beautiful and mysterious, and yet so simple, it requires no explanation, and it poses no questions.
I often wonder why it is that the minute i close my eyes and try to escape life, time comes by and wishes me
into somebody’s thoughts; somebody’s arms. It lets me feel and it lets me hurt. It swifts me from one extreme to the other, and lets me wake up with cold sweat and fear.
What is there to do but to close your eyes when they grow heavy and to open them once they have rested?
I’ve been told of bravery and once i thought i experienced it. Am i to experience it again? Is that the only
path that is open to me; the only one not paved by stones of fire and surrounded by thorns of ice?
How much can my soul bare once my body has declared it will decease?
We are born prepared to die, and we live running away from rebirth.
I open my eyes again, and i smile at the dark sky. It smiles back at me, laying down a challenge i can’t refuse.
Is life worth living, or is death not worth waiting for?
I get up and run. I’m in a race with time and our common goal is the unknown.
Is victory mine, or is the journey the point of my destination?