midnight souls remain.

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it's calm, dark, a beautiful night. there are stars in the sky and a slight wind. yet there's lightning. sheet after sheet of mad, impossible lightning. the sky's on fire, and the crickets sing on.

i'm home again. i was away, away - visiting the easternmost coast of the world, watching the sun rise and set over the ocean. hiking though the untamed territory of the mountains. it was hard, our trip. after a day of continuous uphill trek, through rain that never really stopped and wind so strong i worried about blowing over, i stopped for a break and couldn't bring myself to get up again. at that point, walking 2.5 more km to base camp seemed harder than anything i've ever done in my life. but that's the thing about hiking: you go and go until you can't any more - until your leg muscles have stopped responding and are moving of their own accord, till you're cold and wet and numb, till it would hurt less to cut your feet off than keep walking. you go until you can't any more, and then you keep going, because that's what you came to do. and oh, how it's worth it.

when was the last time you stood on the peak of a mountain, could see for 50miles and couldn't see another human being? ah. it's freeing, to be that alone. terrifying, yes. but freeing.

so i'm home and the summer's almost over. school starts in i-don't-want-to-know-but-less-than-five days, and with it, homework and responsibility and thinking. ugh. we drop my brother off at university tomorrow - he'll be off having his own adventures, and for the first time in my life, i'll be alone. it's odd, i don't know if i'm ready. but i have to be.

and so there you go. the world is so calm and beautiful, yet there's lightning, turning the sky to flame, changing it in an instant. i'm not really sure what lies ahead; i go into the great unknown. and the crickets sing on.

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whimsy657's avatar
that sounds so amazing. glad you're back - i missed reading your journals. they're so poetic.

where did you go? that sounds just brilliant.