LJ Idol Wheel of Chaos: "This Lonely Highway"

[halfshellvenus]

This Lonely Highway
Idol Wheel of Chaos | Week 16, #1
Kako no ashoito (memories/events/influences from the past)

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Wheeling through the dark,
light lost to the stars
and the city far behind us,
we travel the barren highway
toward a distant promise.
The moon gleams cold as ice.

On a looming hilltop,
a lone steer stands, starkly
black against the dimness behind it.
The unfenced land crowds close,
the highway an inky ribbon
stretching into the night.

Nothing thrives in this desert,
in this unforgiving land
along the road to somewhere else.
Time waits frozen, as unyielding
as the desolation
of this lonely, forgotten place.

Wakeful, I watch the hills unfold,
mark a field light's deathly glow.
Ghost songs on the radio
float up through the static
in this in-between nowhere
caught so very far from home.


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Comments

[alycewilson]

You've done an excellent job of evoking the feeling of this memory. It reminded me very much of a specific memory I have: making our way home from seeing live opera while on vacation in the rain. The water pooled in the dimly-lit streets and looked, to me, like puddles of ink.

[halfshellvenus]

Thank you! We made that trip several times, and the forlorn feeling of that long, lonely section has always stayed with me. It seemed as if we could be stuck there forever, never making it out of that in-between place. I think that was my first encounter with what could be described as "eeriness."