JCU Love Letters 2.0
#6265
My loneliness turns time into vast expanses of land. A mountain of hours lay before me, and on the other side- I don’t know, but hold only to a hope of ‘maybe’, that there could be an oasis just over this ridge of hours. Hours are kilometres. I navigate this wilderness without crying out- knowing my cries will be swallowed by the ever looming surrounds. Thoughts like a stream into a deep chasm, that echos, but never echos back- bottomless. So too, is this landscape of isolation, just as endless and extreme. I wonder alone. I want to fall down and cry, hoping death takes me gently, but my instinct is too strong- and just as well, this horizon never ends, wherever I go. Desolate lands speak poetry to my heart and recognises something of itself; beauty in its isolation; company with an aching solitude. Wandering, wandering soldier, where upon the Earth will you find your violent company and die with your brothers, nourishing with the blood of your heart, this beautiful, lonely land…
- Wandering Soldier