TrailGazer

I walked alone. In the early evening, sun sinking low in the sky. I walked alone, on the wooded path. I could feel it watching me. I could feel its' stare, striking through to my core. The coldness, darkness...the empty, deep penetrating gaze fixated on my very soul. But I walked alone. Keeping my back straight, my fists tightened. For I didn't know what would approach me, what would come gnashing & gnarling out at me from the wood.

Fear, no, strength, courage, almost a slight stubbornness lifted from me, encouraging me to carry on down the long, lonesome path. I wouldn't submiss. I wouldn't run. I "owned" these woods just as much as any other creature. I just had to prove it, to myself, to others, to it, to him.

I could almost 'see' the movement in the thicket in front of me. It appeared as a strange, wavey mirage type of movement. But I knew it was real. It was there, moving in the Evergreens, watching me, listening to my heartbeat, feeling my blood rush through my veins.

I won't give-in. I won't run. I will continue on. I will meet you, face to face, one day, when the time is right.