Water Highway

She treaded water while looking upward into the night’s sky. The stars were so bright out here where she seemed to be floating alone. A sense of companionship enveloped her, a company beyond her vision. The water was her friend. It carried her weight. It fed her thirst. As she lay in its depth she could hear its voice singing in her ears.

A sound was emerging, a building wave coming to her place of quietness. She could feel herself rising higher in these waters, being rushed along a path laid out before her. A new road began to form in this water, it looked like a highway. Looking down she realized her feet now rested atop the wave, she was walking on this water highway…