A Winter Evening's Walk

I'm not a person in this world - I am a place

Seven o'clock

I grab my cigs, my phone, and my iPod 

Head off into the night

The air had warmed,

Turning to fog over the snow strewn landscape

It's a potentially dangerous walk

On these perilous streets

"Don't forget my wallet!"

I rush back into the house

A morbid reminder of potential disaster

I risk my evening walk anyway

For the solace of darkness

And the solitude

That jars my thinking

I am at peace, if just for a little while

Oh, the beautiful stillness of such a night!

Remnants of a blizzard not long gone

Have kept everyone inside

Only a very few cross my path this evening

I am virtually alone

The walk is not long

Tonight's I follow the short route

But for that little while

I am king of the world

At one with my surroundings

And it is beautiful!

If only I could feel like this forever...

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