Lone Reed

Sometimes you just feel down - college stuff

I feel alone.

There is no one.

They have left

and I am standing by myself,

watching from a distant place.

A lone reed

in a massive field of emptiness.

The only movement is far off,

barely able to see the shadows

dancing

as the sun drifts off to sleep.

The darkness envelopes me.

I feel the cold.

I shiver.

Alone I am,

no more shadows,

not even a sliver of the moon

peeking out of the rolling clouds.

The ground beneath my feet slides

from under me and I fall.

Still as the night around me,

I close my eyes 

and cry.

There is nothing.

I want to scream,

but my soul won't allow me.

It burns inside me,

I want it more than anything.

The soul releases.

BOOM - thunder in the distance.

It rolls across the plain.

Laying still,

my eyes open slowly.

My tears dry

as the sky sheds its own pain.

A cleansing of the wounded spirit.