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The weekly Wordpress Photo Challenge, sponsored by The Daily Post

Unencumbered

Unencumbered, must I enter
Unattached
Unburdened

Burdens weigh me down
Attachments distract me
Encumbrances hold me back

She couldn’t afford
The stairway to heaven
So there it was

Floating weightless
Just beyond the reach of those
Born too low, or fallen too far

In the moving sand
She saw them dancing
The elves and sprites
No one else saw

She found that sad
The world was a more beautiful place
When magical creatures danced
A shame no one else knew the magic

From the tower
I frame in the traffic circle
My pickup truck at the bottom
Holding Alcatraz in the bay
Looking so peaceful

As if I’d landed
Billions of years ago
On a planet still young
And restless

When rock flowed as liquid
And the only solid lands
Were granite rafts
Floating on a molten orb

Nothing sustains the Now
Mile after mile
Like an open road
Through spectacular country

Nothing reminds me better
How little most of it matters
Than a chair like this
In a place like this

Are you going
The way I am going
The way I am going there?

Then let us share The Road
Together

In the final moments
Of my existence
Here in this dimension

As reality folds in
Upon itself

I manage to get in

One last

I am certain
No one knew
The fate which had been wrought
When the first arches were erected

Or was it rather
A prophecy?