Tag: night

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Scooter at night in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia

The right Kind of Time ~ NaPoWriMo Day 25

I see us
On the scooter
Isolated in space
But time
Isn’t the right time
The right kind of time
While the vision itself
Is indistinct

Blurred

Which leaves me

Confused

Nothing’s quite adding up
Or going anywhere
That could be a destination
Or even a place to stop
And rest

I need to rest

Let go
And gather in

Paradoxes

Or is that ironies

The scooter drives on
Into the night
Carrying some sort
Of hopeful

Light

Illuminating nothing

No

Illuminating
Streaks of formless
Something

Something formless
Meant to have form
Intending to form

Therein
I know where the hope
In the light
Leads

The right kind of time

Even if I
Have no idea where
Or when
Such time will be

Or was

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Energy Beam, Sea to Sky Highway, Tantalus Lookout, North of Squamish, British Columbia, Canada

A Momentary Lapse of Fiction

The energy pulse slammed into the car
Which quivered briefly
Before vapourizing with a flash
Brighter than the beam
Which destroyed it

As the momentary daylight faded
The mist which was once my Toyota
Settled into the crater
That had been a parking lot

I hoped the owner
Of that formidable weapon
Hadn’t acquired my new position

The concrete barrier I’d sheltered behind
Suddenly seemed feeble protection

Night returned and I got the fuck outta there