Ready for Adventure

Courtesy <a href="https://www.deviantart.com/kriskittie/art/Ready-For-Adventure-683130874">KrisKittie</a> / <a href="https://www.facebook.com/8BITambitions/">8BIT Ambitions</a><br/><br/>Oh find me now the sun and lift awaythe mask I wore, so terrified and smallthat scurried through the endless dimm&#232;d daywhere I could close my eyes, swallow it allinto a silence I was sworn to keep,the promises diminishing some lightuntended deep within. The colors seeplike bleach into the soul. You lose the fightand wreck yourself, a ship long lost to sea;adrenaline becomes your constant friend.The ocean always swears to set you free,but you'll sink closer to your distant end--but swim, belov&#232;d! Find the solid ground;the dawn reveals where promise can be found.<br/><br/>&#8212;<br/><br/>Part of me is beginning to hope that the endless Pennsylvania winter will start to break soon. The days are getting longer (though they&#8217;re still pretty short) and I hope that soon enough the gray will break again, and we&#8217;ll have a nice few months of sunshine.<br/><br/>I miss Sunshine. I never thought I would, considering how much I hate the heat. It was always easy to conflate the two, I suppose, but no. I long for the cold, clear days, where the sun shines bright and there&#8217;s a chill in the air, unmarred by cloud or snow. Just as much as I long to come back into myself and go chasing after things again.<br/><br/>May it come soon. <br/><br/>Get full access to Sonnets &c. at <a href="https://zjppoetry.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast">zjppoetry.substack.com/subscribe</a>