It’s dark and my heart is pounding.
I’ve been running for some time
and when I stop and turn around
The Fox is there.
It teases me with its crystalline eyes
Beckoning me to the chase.
I pursue, blood pumping through my legs.
I lose sight of it,
but at once hear footfalls behind me.
I turn around again
and the crystalline eyed beast is chasing me,
face in wide smile.
I awaken.
Sweat and pounding heart the only evidence of the pursuit.
I must go.
I begin the climb
Painful breath
My legs on fire
My head on fire
My heart threatens to burst into flames.
Frozen lake a mile below me
Taste of a warm wind and the beating of
wings above me.
Each hill steeper than the last.
I climb closer to the sun
but the air grows chilled.
On the backside of the mountain
the unheard winds roar through the canyon.
I hear them, the calling voices.
While snow crunches beneath my feet
The flames and fever reveal me.
In outrunning restlessness
I find I have been Utterly Consumed.
I laugh and lie down in the flames,
the truth of restlessness and desire illuminated
as my skin gives way.
I hear, at great distance,
the voice of the Lion
Offering to wrap me in robes
instead of flame.
And I must decide
to stay
or go.
She read it to me and it sounded beautiful, but I didn’t get it. I just read it myself and it took ahold of me! Wow! You are a gifted writer.
Thank you, my love.
In outrunning restlessness, I thought i have been utterly consummed …Wow love it….
Remind me of a certain lady who once said stop running like a chicken haha!
Ah, yes. I try not to run, but I run. Like a chicken. LOL!
Keep running beautiful friend , keep running!