You’re standing beyond the boundary
Looking in
And you’re clinging desperately to something you’ve
Never been
There must be something here
You can call your own
But you’re always standing on the outside
All alone
The world comes crashing down
At the break of day
And you’ve tried so hard to tell yourself
That you’ll be okay
Memories slip through your grasp
As you fade from time
But you can’t forget the one thing you could
Never find
I'm walking down this crumbling road
Again
The world keeps changing
Yet it's all the same
The fading daylight cannot hide
These scars
One more 'tomorrow'
Fades to 'yesterday'
But still I'm marching on
There is a light in the distance
It leads me on
It calls my name
And guides me on my way
And while I long for tomorrow
I want to leave this life
Give up this path
And throw it all away
Today
What point in fighting
When you're all alone?
Each life's a moment
Then they fade to grey
You'd think by now
I'd have a heart of stone
Yet each new meeting
Makes me long to stay
But still you call me on
There is a wind blowing onwards
It knows my pa
Here the wind that blows
has always called my name
Here the shining rays
peer out from falling rain
Waiting in the dark
and dreaming of the dawn
Hoping in my heart
that I can carry on
Holding in my hands
a quiet memory
Of a promise made
and a path to take
In the cold I hold it close
and listen carefully
To the words I spoke
long ago
Clouds radiated across the sky in sweeping arcs, crystalline white against luminescent azure. As far as the eye could see, just sky and land—a flat, gray-brown expanse, the horizon so unbroken by trees or structures that the wind galed almost constantly across it. He had never seen a place so empty and unmoved. If not for the wind and the clouds shifting over head, he may have believed the world had stopped, frozen in a breath of time.
His older companion smiled down at him, a hint of mischief in silver-green eyes.
“You seem surprised; surely, you did not believe the mountains went on forever?”
He shook his head.
“
Sitting on the bottom looking up.
I struggled as I sank, limbs thrashing, hands slapping the water while I tried, desperate, to keep my head over the surface. It didn't look so much to everyone else, but the panic was real, too real to cry out for help. I'm drowning; I don't have air to waste screaming. They just keep swimming over head, oblivious.
So here I am, so far down you won't see me unless you're looking in the right spot. Don't expect a wave or a smile. I'm too tired for that. I can't reach up for a hand extended downwards, but don't mistake it for giving up. I'm not ready to accept defeat.
Still holding my breath despite the pain
Why Do I Take These Quests by Rahdiyan, literature
Literature
Why Do I Take These Quests
Oh give me a home
Where no Druffalo roam
'Cause they're slow and they smell really bad
And if there's one more word
About guiding the herd
I'll stab you and burn down your home
Why do I take these quests?
They're always tedious at best
I don't need your sword
And if I wasn't bored
You can bet that you would be ignored