Random thoughts at 5am

Not a single soul was out tonight…

Just me, the birds, and a dead town.

As I walked along the abandoned high street, I was reminded of the movie “The Truman Show” as a town without the people resembles a movie set. Every building merely a building on its own, yet immediately blessed with life and purpose once surrounded by people and movement.

As I remove my headphones which provide the soundtrack to this movie set on hold, the sound of the birds is accompanied by the sound of the water flowing through the sewers below us.
Together along with the blowing wind, I believe if I simply close my eyes, I can imagine that I’m walking along a sandy calm beach on a fresh and sunny day.



Written by Sofia Tartaglia at 5:26 am on 12th of March 2017

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