World’s End

5am brought mist draped peaks, egg sandwiches, and a hooded driver.

We skirted Sri Lankan hillsides by van,

The sun rose, stencilled the clouds in silver

And the dry gravel of an ancient lakebed crunched beneath our feet.

Along with 4 litres of water, 4 Granny Smith apples and spirits warmed by the morning sun,

We carried our choices with us.

Over streams

Up and down slopes

And beneath a canopy of foreign song

And we arrived at World’s End.

How often do we really encounter a hard edge?

The mundane nature of our daily decisions insulates us from the universe of parallel universes

That reaches out before us with each passing choice

Great or small.

All the alternate pathways seemed visible to us

From the elevated perspective of our summit.

If I could go back there

I would try harder to release my choices

So that they could drift out over the valley

Mix with the vapours

And be airlifted on a spiritually emulsified updraft.

Then eventually,

They could fall with the condensate

And settle with the sediments

Inert

At rest

Compressed for safe keeping.

Until one day

When some wayward glacier or errant thought or corrosive lichen

Scrapes them loose

And releases them

Back into the stream.

4 thoughts on “World’s End”

Hi Hilary Drew & the awesome kids!!
Really cool too Read your stories! We Will keep follow you!! Today is our last day on Sri Lanka. But we take a lot of beautiful memories back to Holland! Enjoy and we wish you all the best!!
P.s if you Will visite the Netherlands, you all welcome at our Place.
Lot of loves, Sofie and Stan

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Wow. Great post. Poetry and philosophy.

Love the video of Arden walking down the path carrying a stick

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I loved so much about this blog ! Literally poetry in your words .. so beautiful and thought provoking ! I read it 5 times quite incredible .. you’re a long way from the creemore delight ! It was video day .. I could listen to that stream forever so soothing .. all of the videos wonderful. You are giving your children and you both a lesson in life , insight ways of the 🌎 that NO ONE else will ever have ‼️‼️

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