At this moment I had a reluctance

That amounted to fear

I rightly didn't belong here

Because it was strange to me,

I would recognize it as a warning disregarded

I was not prepared

A man brooded,

His pale eyes were frosted with sun glare

His lips scaly as snakeskin

Humans being what they are

And I Being human, was not prepared

I

Rightly didn’t belong here

And then the late afternoon changed

Everything

It was strange only because I found it so

I stopped near a thicket of dwarfed

and wind-warped cedars and junipers

I was caught

Dazzled by the clarity of the light

The strange land scape shouted with color

The night was lovely beyond thought

The night was friendlier than the day

I built a small fire just to smell

The perfume of burning wood

I was caught

Trapped in color