JohnJames on Nostr: go beyond the city lights til the skyline fills with stars past where the road ends & ...

go beyond the city lights
til the skyline fills with stars

past where the road ends
& all signals die

til only God is there to call upon

alone
deep in the wilderness
experience is cautiously licked from the razor’s edge
the lonely reward
just as sweet
as the tolls paid are bitter

It’s moments of reveal are
breathtaking,
glorious,
serene…
well worth the inevitable scars,
the pain,
the loneliness,
and the fear

stripped of the world you know
reality is just a reflection
laying bare your false-self
for the harsh winds of solitude to blow upon

stay a while…

let the gale wear away the careful truths and convenient lies
let it scour through the fine layers of aged and hardened facade you’ve so carefully maintained…

until one day,
you stand,
the guise removed,
the truth revealed

yours,
to forgive,
to accept,
and,
if you are able…

to love



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