Moonlight

I am bare foot. I can feel the dirt seeping into the skin of my soles. But it doesn't feel dirty. Instead, it feels right. It's like I am one with nature: uninhibited and completely free.
I run into the cold air, surrounded by the trees and a soft breeze that brings with it the salty scent of the ocean. I quicken my pace; I long for the sound of the waves and the crunch of the sand as I walk slowly to the water. The lovely glisten of the moonlight on the beach. The soft glow of gold that will bathe my bare skin as I reveal myself from the cover of leaves I am now under. They let in little of the light. Darkness is all around but I breath deeply and calmly even as I run. The air is filled with a hum and an electricity that seems to connect everything living . . . that strips the boundaries and makes us all one. It makes me feel as if I could just melt into the ground beneath my feet. It makes me feel warm. It makes me feel alive.
A full moon is out tonight. It is completely round, completely eerie. Full of knowledge and secrets. Of wisdom and magic. Of infinite possibilities. It drips of the unknown. The color is something out of a fairy tale or a ghost story. But I reach for it anyway. I will get as close to it as I possibly can.
I slowly walk out onto the desolate stretch of sand, and I can feel it. It. The feeling I get as midnight nears and the day ends. The feeling that makes me itch with restlessness. Whether I'm asleep or awake, it doesn't matter. I still feel it. It creeps into my skin and flows through my veins like it is my own blood. Thickly, slowly . . . it moves and crawls within me.
It is an ache and a longing that rips away any sense of self I have. I feel animal, barbaric. I just want to throw myself into the rough waves that crash against my legs and float away into everything I do not know. To become one with the water and the air and the sky and the moon and the land beneath my feet. To sink into the wet leaves that cover the ground. To truly be watched over by the mother called Earth.
So I run along the edge of this great blue abyss, feeling sharp rocks under my toes and the cold wrapping itself around my skin... but I don't care. I just want to feel apart of the unknown.
So I run.