moments like this
remind me why
i am alive.
witnessing the countryside
pass us by
as we’re driving
up the Hume freeway;
a family of cows
a team of horses.
the majesty of the
Australian landscape,
the sudden awareness of its
unyielding nature,
is incandescent.
we seem so minuscule
when confronted with the vastness
of our home.
the towering
evergreen
eucalypts
are the only source
of salvation
from the blinding Australian
sun.
in the car
with the air con on full
we laugh;
driving by Maccas
to get that cheeseburger meal,
we take a photograph
with our middle fingers up
to the world.
moments like this
remind me why
i am alive.
