/lit/ - Literature

>>14514744
Out there in red expanses I beheld the seam between worlds

In seas of stone and thorn and cliff you grew more present in my mind

Before the west I did not know you, all buried under trees where I was born

You’ve never known the need to raise your voice, allowing me in time to understand you were alive

A great and beautiful serpent, a creature I may never touch, a border I will never meet

Angry in jagged mountains, calm in lonesome basins, so livid in geographic emotion

You fly the high plateaus adorned in heated scales, which shimmer in the midday sun

Coiling, settling, calming in later hours, your oscillations soothed by gradients at dusk

Only when the moon goes down and the very last star rests it’s pattering feet, do you finally sleep

And so do I, my eyes heavy with the travels of the days across your back

On open stone, upon your scales, I fall asleep, knowing with comfort that you are there

That in the morning I will see you again, how in our travels we will shift and change once more, dancing in all our wild energies

You, oh aspect of my world
You grant my freedom and expand my lungs

You embolden my heart and spirit to press onwards

I carry your story
I hear your voice
I know your name

Horizon

>>12131117
Please cremate me and spread my ashes over the deserts of Escalante, so that I may be one with the ochre dust of the land I love so much. Do not worry, I am at peace now.

>>12107910
Help the people you value, find tranquility in chaotic wilderness.