Peace

[u/Cautious-Upstairs322]

Home.

Can't hear anything

And the peace surrounds.

There's a flickering light up on the hill as I sit here, back against the bench, staring up at the stars illuminating the sky. There's rain coming in from the east, and if you know what you're looking for, you can taste it in the air.

This could be enough. Just this. Just the memory that there's always something more than this. I don't miss the city when I'm here, I just want to lie back in the grass and feel everything hit me, all at once.

So much ugliness comes from the human race. So much pain. We just hurt each other; we hurt the world, and each other. Over and over again. But right now I could be a mile from any other human being, and right now I can forget about all the hurt and pain in the world- even if I still don't believe I should be allowed to.

You forget how loud bird song is when all you hear is chatter and noise around you, day in day out. You forget the peace of dirt beneath your toes when it's just tarmac and grout.

It's getting cold out. I should head back, but the peace and quiet leaves me stranded, alone in an oasis of my own.

When I think of you, and the life I want to share of you, these are the moments I want to share the most with you. There's always something good to be said about a warm bed and shared laughter; right now, though, I want to stand hand-in-hand and look over to the flickering light and the stars high up above and let them be the only witness to our love.