My heart aches,
So sweet, but bitter too.
I look behind me,
And I see landmarks of my past,
Looming.
Threatening to devour me whole.
I look ahead of me,
And I see the mountains of the future.
Greeting me.
Promising a better tomorrow…
If only I will sleep.
The earth is exhaling.
It is a sigh of ages…
Sorrowful, but still smiling.
The sky is relentless,
The trees fly by,
The sun parades over the clouds,
And the birds are distant.
Each place I come… and each place I go,
Promise hope and despair for my undetermined tomorrows.
Morn and eve,
Day and night…
Beckon me.
Life and death,
Bad and good,
Tease me.
I press on, forward through culture and constraint,
I press on, from the people I meet, and the places I see.
Twisted and sinful.
Pristine and benevolent.
And I see… that complex as it is,
Human only, am I.
Fickle and puzzling.
Kind and plain.
I am alive.
And that is all the certainty I need.
OdiPhi