Home Sweet Home

The dark caught up with us & stole our eyes. it laughed at our map! Took up the minor path we had been following (wriggling like a worm) then threw it aside into the nothingness. Scared...the map just...stared. A boney branch knocked the torch out of my hand & the light ran away. An owl hooted with laughter. Even a river & its tributary was eaten up by the silence. The dark held us tight in its fist. We could feel its breath upon our face. Our heartbeat chisled like heiroglyphs a fear that could be read and touched. 'Where are we? ' you barely dared to ask. 'Nowhere...I know! ' I nervously laugh. We staggered on into the future hoping to stumble somehow upon a present finally finding some lost time that we could recognise as our own two frightened little humans glad to be home sweet home.