The Solitude of the Open Road

I have traveled at night in such darkness that it left me to feel as though the road had fallen away. Feeling my heart rise up, I took a leap of faith that I had not been abandoned, that there would be more than air to greet me, and that I was safer than the fear whispering in my ear. It was a long journey that moon less night with only the stars for company . . . Or so I had thought, until I was greeted by the dawn of a new day.