Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Lost

Another lost soul wandering in the desert. Searching for love. Searching for happiness. Searching for peace. Contentment. Fulfillment. Ever searching, never finding.

All around him, shadows glide by. Amorphous. Intangible. Surreal. Other wanderers...lost souls. Each in search of their own requisites. Facing their own demons. Ever passing, never meeting.

He walks on. The arid desert sands scorch his feet. Heat from the boiling sand rises off the earth in shimmering waves, like fingers reaching for the skies. Dried bones, picked clean by vultures lie around, scattered. Lost forever. Grim reminders of what he would be should his quest fail. He carefully steps around them and walks on.

The desert sands stretch forward and roll on to eternity. In the distance, a shape materializes. He shields his eyes from the glaring sun and begins to walk in that direction. What could it be? An oasis? An answer to his questions?

He walks on, keeping the mysterious shape in sight. But though step turns to stride and distance turns to miles, the shape remains a constant, ever evasive. Illusionary. Distant.

Yet, now that he has some aim, some destination, in this barren land, he forges on, ever keeping his goal in sight. His weariness dissipates to hope. The hope to stay alive. To reach his goal. To find his answers. It is this hope that fuels him onwards, on the one true path to what he thinks is knowledge.

Relentless as the glaring sun and the scorching sands, he continues onward .......

.....lost no more.