i took a walk tonight, the dark sky wresting above me and the darkness holding me close like a blanket on a cold December night. the sky was empty and the only stars seen, hung from light posts i drew in a deep breath to take this journey alone the hard concrete beneath my feet as i walked i forget what it was like to be alone in the darkness..... id close my eyes to listen to the calls of crickets and frogs that seround me, making me feel strangely at home among the faille. a strange feeling i often forget among the concrete jungle we live in their songs calling me back to nature where my heart yurns and longs for.... i take a deep breath...... my mind wonders getting lost in their siren call beckoning me to join them to shed my mortal flesh to return to nature where we once belonged but im bound to it....i slide off my sandles so i may once more feel the earth around me but all i feel is pavement its cold hard lifelessness. its hard beneath my feet and uncaring though nature fights to grow around it... i turn my head up towards the trees that soon enclose around me my body aching to run among them free........a freedom we preach but know little of but i could hear it within the darkness even a place where our shadows we cast may find peace.......a freedom i wish i knew i find my home but come to realize its far from the home i wish i knew just another cage trapped into a ideology of what living is meant to be and i go there...i make my way back to my room where i should feel safe but i only feel suffocated..climb into bed where i should find comfort but only feel as though i am lost

darkness is where i find my peace