And you will be open and terrified.
Like great heights and bottomless seas, it will test you.
It will ask of you all your strength that you can muster and then more.
It will leave you shaking and euphoric, wondering how you came to feel this way.
It will leave you afraid, because no one is afraid behind walls and doors.
And it will also leave you.
You will stumble into deserts that you never thought would be possible,
Dwarfing you with the towering amber dunes,
Blinding you with the sun and heat and sand in your eyes.
No reprieve for you from the wind and the heat and the scope of it all.
No direction, no compass, no map.
And you will be alone.
You will be abandoned at times out in the dark forests,
As you struggle through broken landscapes with tempting lights in the fog.
Know they're not real, for here there be monsters and broken souls,
Lurking and waiting, unwilling to go on, those that have settled.
You know you could easily join them, those that have become lost.
And you be tempted.
You will find true home and shelter in all manner of places.
The honest thing is that we all feel safe and warm with someone in our beds.
Whether it's a parent comforting a scared, small child
Or a couple laughing late into the dark in the face of a hard day.
Home is a work of labor, a harbor with the lights left on.
And you will love.
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