Smooth gravel
Through sparse country
Makes me happy
Smooth gravel
Through sparse country
Makes me happy
On a cool, calm morning
Overcast, serene
The river and the people
Flow out to the shore
There to be lost
In their own way
To the surf and the sea
A journey of a thousand miles
Begins with a centre line
Life
And Love
Bring colour
To the grimmest day
Sometimes
Even in the darkest times
All I need
To keep me grounded
Is a centre line
Through open country
This ominous sky
This cataclysm of cloud
Sinister storm
Unleashed on a landscape
Unapologetically lethal
The exquisite beauty
Of furious nature
And I
Defiant
Steadfast in the wind
Rain pelting flesh
Breathe in all that might
Make the power my own
Become the desert
And the storm
Find the darkness
In the light
And the light
In the darkness
Angry sky
Above vacant land
Allows a torrent
That never satisfies
For the land
Is always thirsty
A few steps beyond
My car parked at the trailhead
The day falls away