untangling the web

Desert. It starts with desert.

The character-building learning times.

When everything we yearn for is stripped away:

the cosy rhythms of life, the comfortable ready meals,

the relaxing night sleeps, the good people around us,

and instead

there is only bleak wilderness, anxious heartbreak,

dirt and dust, hunger and raging thirst.

There are shadows over us as we crawl towards the oasis mirage,

Clinging leech-like, sucking us dry.

And everywhere we look is barren desert.

There is no shelter, no let-up.

 

We didn’t want them.

We didn’t ask for them.

The failures, the disappointments, the health issues, the fall-outs, the crumpled dreams and disasters.