The sun looks to the moon for advice On how to handle the long dark nights But when something is just second nature How do you explain it? Well the moon tells the sun “You were not created with the fire in your atoms to be dark Just as I was not created to shine the same light At night Try understanding and except who you are Don’t change the parts that aren’t broken If you can rise as the sun shines light With every touch, every whisper, and every laugh Then when night falls I will lay waiting To pull you in just as the moon does With the ocean tides".
About the Creator
Allison
Poet at heart, connected to the sun, moon, and the stars above.
Can You Drive a Ford Fiesta Through a Desert?
I’m flying down the B1 highway from Windhoek to Keetmanshoop with a map and a boot full of camping gear. I’m excited for the first stop of my Namibian road trip: the Quiver Tree Forest. I spot the sign and turn onto the C17, off the tarmac and onto the gravel. I’ll be there soon; it’s only ten miles or so. I am unprepared for what comes next. The car slides and slips across the road. I am not fully in control anymore. I slow to a crawl. The car judders and shudders, the noise deafening, the vibrations rattling the teeth in my skull. It takes me around an hour to drive the ten miles. I arrive at the campsite relieved to be in one piece, even if it feels like all my bones have been shaken slightly out of place. I will later learn that this is what happens when the gravel road becomes “corrugated”, and that the roads authority goes round once a week to “grade” them. Seems I arrived about 6 days after the grader had last been round.
By Jenifer Nimabout 22 hours ago in Wander
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