Sweet Darkness

Saturday, March 21, 2009
Visiting Dining Room, By Light of Fire w/ Dad (Mtopos, Zimbabwe)
Night

"Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift."

Moments ago I found myself alone on the great big rock between my hut
and the dining room hut.

It was for all of five minutes but alone I was.

The great grey clouds from the daytime clearly have not yet
dissipated, as the night sky is complete blackness.

I don't think I have ever been in such unadulterated absolute.

It's freeing.