Wandering the daydream, with all the accompanying mists and the fey voices just out of earshot in those mists; a forest of lingering like a wraith waiting for the gloaming of nightfell — such is the path I flow.
Weary of trying to find connection, I feel the tug of something less even than byways. And, giving in, twin feet shamble towards the briar and thorns to follow on the stones to sacrifice of both eyes. The words are liars, near all, so we toss them to the underbrush and let them return to mud.
This is my lonely and I feel possessive of it in the way the chill of fresh-fallen snow stings skin to pleasure as two bare hands mould it into shape. I do not think I can share it, and I would never dare to give it away. It is far too precious.
Turn away, just as the guitar peals the last banshee cries into night. We are like as not, unforgiven.
4 responses to “Wandering”
Excellent. There are things close to use we can’t put into words. You touch on that wonderfully.
Thanks Bob. So very true; we can only grasp the flavor, but sometimes not the taste.
Great prose, Michael. You have woven a real sense of an awareness of both self and situation but with those things slightly out of reach; the promise of revelation around each new corner, but cloaked in frustration and disillusionment. Excellent.
Thank you Chris. One day, who knows?