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Went for a walk

In a cloudy night

Under a waning moon

Followed a path unknown

As I wandered erratically

Across open plains into the woods

Without an idea

Where it would lead me to

When I left my home

Driven by an urge

I couldn't explain

When the first day broke

I reached a lake

Its dark, brooding water streaked by the wind

First beams of sunlight

Shone through the trees

And thawed the nightly cold

Out of my bones

As I journeyed on

And left the woods behind

The scenery changed slowly

Until a vast plain spread out before me

A dusty, barren veld

Sparsely covered

In scrawny low scrub

Everything silent apart from a whistling wind

On the top of a mountain

I watched another day rise

How I got there

How long it took me

I didn't know

Up on the plateau I overlooked

The inscrutable desert below

Was this my destination?

Was this my fate from the beginning?