Serenity

 Cool breeze...
Lake Travis below
A house on the hill...
City lights in the distance...
Quiet...
Peaceful...
Frogs and crickets
Singing their songs...
Low hanging clouds
Catching some of the light
That Austin casts...
A handful of night fishermen
Trolling the water below...
Inside the house
All is quiet...
I enjoy the solitude...
The lack of demands...
Life in the day
Is often too noisy...
Too messy...
Too complicated...
I can deal with other humans
When I have to...
They have become
My least favorite interactions
(Excepting messages and calls from valued friends....)
Humans bring with them
Difficulty...
They bring madness
Into the day...
Disruptive to my life
And my flow...
Especially on those days
When I feel most stable...
Most of them think only of themselves,
And when they say otherwise,
It's because you have a
Tangible use...
There's something you have
That they want to make theirs...
Something you can do...
Solitude is my ideal, right now...
It would be nice if solitude
Could remain unbroken
Even with another person in my life...
To sit together under the stars
Appreciating nature
Wordlessly
Would be wonderful...
To be able to successfully do that...
I can be social...
Sociable, even...
But I don't like 
Inviting drama into my life...
New people threaten to introduce new drama...
Potential conflict...
And I have had too much conflict
Throughout the years,
When all I was looking for
Was Peace and Love...
So,
I appreciate nights like this...
On the lake...
High up on a hill overlooking a sleeping city lying just beyond the water's edge...