Went for a walk
In a cloudy night
Under a waning moon
Followed a path unknown
As I wandered erratically
Across open plains into the woods
Without an idea
Where it would lead me to
When I left my home
Driven by an urge
I couldn't explain
When the first day broke
I reached a lake
Its dark, brooding water streaked by the wind
First beams of sunlight
Shone through the trees
And thawed the nightly cold
Out of my bones
As I journeyed on
And left the woods behind
The scenery changed slowly
Until a vast plain spread out before me
A dusty, barren veld
Sparsely covered
In scrawny low scrub
Everything silent apart from a whistling wind
On the top of a mountain
I watched another day rise
How I got there
How long it took me
I didn't know
Up on the plateau I overlooked
The inscrutable desert below
Was this my destination?
Was this my fate from the beginning?