i’m walking beneath a ruthless sun. indifferent towards me, the rats, and towards the snakes and towards the spiders with pitch black velvet furs, hiding behind small rocks, waiting for their time. towards the creatures of running sand. and the creatures of decaying earth. indifferent towards all of us; still, we owe our lives to its distant existence. our petty lives: these pieces of time; filled with misery rooted in the joys of others and hatred rooted in the fortune of them. reasons rooted in stupidity, and even some benevolence, rooted in pure cruelty. pieces of time noone knows what to do with.
i’m walking towards a mirage. it looks just like a village once i’ve seen: a small group of tiny trees buried deep in a fog of sand, a few buildings, a few people, tired, sitting. i’m tired too, but still moving anyway: towards a mirage that looks just like the real thing; but when you can never reach it, does it really matter? i hope it’s real, and i hope i can reach it somehow… but hope is just the simplest form of procrastination. you hope for something better; you hope that you find a water well behind that dune or see a caravan on the horizon… just to postpone facing the truth you wouldn’t like to face: there’s no water and there’s no caravan. hell, there isn’t even a horizon. so, i just walk. towards a mirage… or a real desert town. i don’t know. it doesn’t matter. i just, walk.