Still

Birds chirp in the background, playing their solo riff in the midst of summers sound. The sun struggles to rise as does she, wiping the confusion from her waking eyes. I feel as if I'm encased in concrete walls a mile tall I'm so safe, though all that separates us from the world are these thin tent walls. She feels protected in the elements with me by her side as the alpha male, unaware without her near I to am subject to fear. Coals still glow as a lighthouse in the distance upon a sea of morning dew, as we make our way to last nights fire we feel refuge. Small animals around continue with their morning food gather. I love how our roles as humans have altered, this it their city so to them we don't matter. The edge of the whispering lake opaque, in the distance it's ablaze with the rising sun's rays. Life surrounds us from every angle with constant movement as I enclose her in my arms, and sum how we can just be still. Still.... like the eye of a hurricane. Still.... like a dead man who finally can escape his pain. Still.... without racism, without war, without rich or poor, right or wrong, without hate, just perfectly sedate. Still........ -LIV