joelhike

 I feel like I slept for days this time. I wake up and nothing around me feels the same. I remember being here, though it must have been quite some time ago. Even the cracks in the rocks look different now, somehow growing and spidering with each breath I took since I fell here. Breathing. It hits me quickly how desperately hungry I am. It is becoming uncomfortable not to move and I attempt to turn my head for the first time since I awoke. Like a painted hinge breaking open, my neck snaps to the right after some difficulty. When my eyes focus I can see something dark on the horizon. It doesn't seem to be moving, but perhaps swelling, and in

Give me a game To play all night To lift up your might The ghost of my life Beats any of dead Lies in my restless bed The Champion of Dreams Is not what he seems He bears through the light For chance to take flight Go chase the birds That deliver ideas Over forgotten seas The whims of the water Will breathe not two times It's a chance on the lines The Champion of Days Takes a break from old age He flies through the years With eyes soft and clear They deliver their thoughts To minds filled with rot But of what they won't sell And to whom they don't tell The Champion of Song Sings a note loud and long Then retires his

I know where to go And how I'll arrive I'd like to float down a riverbed With a blanket and my pillow Birds will surround me And tell me their secrets Strangers with light footsteps Wait where I'm getting off this boat I built myself another boat To carry all the treasures I've been collecting And when it sat in the water It filled itself and went to the bottom I'm guessing I didn't need them But I could've had some fun Fish surround my boat to tell me How I've wronged The forest falls around me Building things that I've never heard of Filters out the dirty earth With things that kill the sun Birds will surround me And te