I Am Buraot

Summer’s almost over. The days are still hot but the nights are getting cooler. Outside, I can see that it was beginning to rain. It was just enough to wash away the haze that’s hovering over my head.
Even without the aid of beer, my belly begins to flab. My legs, now embedded with gout, are [...]

It was a desolate wasteland, a mix of hot sand and ragged dirt. There was no air except for the few occasional breezes that blow like hotter than summer.
From the broken cracks on the ground, you can see the scorching air rising up above it like debris trying to flee a burning magma. Even the [...]

Gone was winter, and summer’s almost here. But despite the southern warmer weather, the northern cold still remains…
Once again, the slightly greenish haze went down the cascades of the everglades, its humid vapor condenses slowly and its frozen tentacles reaching across the hills and straight right through me.
When it’s warm it can get warm, which [...]

I have a dream. I dreamed of lilies and wildflowers that have begun to spring on the dry desert sands of the gloomy northwest.
The immaculate smell of freshness fills the waterless air that roamed the land for centuries, reinvigorating it with new flavor and crispness like raindrops till the arid wasteland.
I could hear the whispers [...]

On top of this magnificent hill I whimper.
I was lying on my back, on top of the cool green mass of freshly cut grass. Parallel to my view was the city I have begun to love. So laid-back and quite friendlier than the city of angels, the one I used to call my second home.
Its [...]

I thought my I was done. My soul searching, my search for answers. I thought I was good enough. My experiences, my life skills. I thought I was wise enough. Been there, done that.
As always, I was wrong….