The Wanderer

September 11, 2023

Through the ocean waves

And this dystopia

I walked a long mile

Blurred in myopia

The city's blistering

In a thickened atmosphere

With too much fume

Where nothing seems clear

My body could not take

One more second of gloom

And so I decide to wander

Into the outside bloom

The forests sang

As I walked across

With the gusting wind

Throwing me at loss

It was getting darker

And I could not see

But once I made my stop

There's a deathly gap I see

Between this giant gap

I saw her standing there

With a menacing look

That I could not bear

She did not talk

She did not move

She just stood there

And watched me transmove

I turned back around

And went back to shore

I still felt her eerie presence

Oozing through me more

It was still dark

And the wind kept pushing

But I prevailed through it all

Desolately surpassing

The day got colder

The wind grew bolder

The freeze is on my shoulder

And my vision becomes older

I made it back home

My limbs all decaying

The rain starts to pour

And the skies are graying

Here I sit in the warm

Next to the fireplace

My day is over

And I rest in grace