This Great and Lonely Space

"Not just beautiful though- The stars are like trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me."

Haze


Sleepy little countryside
lost among fields and gravel roads,
where days go by
unchallenged and unchanged.
Toes dig into the earth
warmed by the summer sun,
and chicks cheep for their mothers
on the dusty barren ground.
Children climb tall pines
to see where the fields slow,
and the bleat of a goat
sounds when the sun hangs low.
It is a bubble, a cage,
the same routine
on a different day.

But the trust in a lambs eye
when I run a hand along its side
is more than enough
to make me stay.

EP