scream down the desert
One of the most persisting and pervading day dreams or dream pictures I have is that of driving my car down from a plateau into a huge, empty landscape, the road rolling straight ahead of me, the sun beating down, the windows wide open, hair whipping in the slipstream, blasting music, not a single soul to be seen anywhere, just endless nature, sand, gravel, rocks, plants, maybe some birds of prey gliding on the thermals and the endless open road before me.
It’s the embodiment of freedom, the mental picture that keeps me going because I know, deep down, that one day I will drive down onto that plain at the fastest speed I can, with the most heart-rending, howling-at-the-sky-worthy music turned up as high as I can take it, and when I’m at the point where I will feel as though shortly I will explode into a thousand pieces and shatter the universe, I will stop the car, screeching and whirling up dust, and jump out and let out an almighty scream to shake the world in its foundations as it reverberates from the mountains behind me and in one tiny moment I will be a part of everything, every particle of this world, of the rocks, the water, the wind, the people, even you, and I will split your heart with the beauty and the magnitude and the free-whirling mystique of this world and leave you changed forever.
Posted on November 12, 2012, in word pictures, writing and tagged beauty, daydream, music, nature, word picture, writing. Bookmark the permalink. 5 Comments.
cresting the words 
I love your descriptiveness here. I caught a sense of rebellion with your freedom. š
… rebellion against all the things that creep into my consciousness every day and try to convince me that the world is not utterly fabulous.
And thank you very much! Part of it came from dancing through the house to this song:
How fun!
This is poetry… in motion.
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Thank you!