March 2, 2023

  I am alone. Watching the sunset on this empty beach, I am alone. The world behind me is shrouded in darkness, save the city lights in the distance. Yet even they are muted and dull, a shadow of their distant glory. I take a breath of sea air, looking at the fading sun with […]

  I want to run.  I want to climb those blue mountains and taste the fresh snow at the top. Yet my feet will not move. Here I stand below, with hands outreached toward something I can never touch. Oh, the weakness of my mind and body I detest! The strength to rise above, for