I Walked Home Beholding - Mount Eerie

The world was frozen

I left the studio

Night had fallen

The storm had cleared

The whole town had been abandoned except for me

I walked home beholding

The lights in the park

The moving trees

The silent corners

The world’s new cloak

A final breath of storm blows snowdrifts in the street

Then blows away over the water

On an island

Across from town

Isolated

Close and alone

Looking across the water seeing people slowly living all their lives

This is the feeling from inside an island body

(Looking out from inside a sea of thoughts, distant and quiet.)

Tossed on the waves

Blown onto land

Grasping meaning

In churning mess

A moment of clear air breathing, seeing the expanse

Totally at peace with the meaninglessness of living

Drifting in a changing world

Alone

Reaching for a solid thing

In vain

The stone dissolves in the same wind I swim through

Where I live there is a constant roaring

Bottomless absence

Through a cloud hole

The sky was moving

I saw it drift

Seeing breathing waves of water roll in the sky

The wind has increased