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Ponderosa Descriptive Writing

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In the Ponderosa

The earth smelt damp and slightly musty—wetted by long nights of July rain and

the bed of cool, cool soil that I laid upon comforted me with its soft resistance of muck

and grass. It was barely morning and hot yellow light dripped through the overhanging

branches of Ponderosa, awakening me from my slumber—and what a slumber it was.

Lone gone was the hunger buried deep within my stomach that kept me up most

nights. Like a decaying feral animal nested deep within my intestines, my festering

hunger would forever remind me of missed meals—days without food; weeks without

food; it was a heavy remembrance. Lone gone was the dryness of my mouth—like

sandpaper my futile tongue would scrape against the barely moistened insides of my

cheeks, all too …show more content…

Though the world was reinvented into a suburban fantasy of

my past as a child, homelessness pervaded even my most blissful dreams—I didn’t mind,

at least I was fed and anything was better than reality.

Reality was cement and broken glass. Reality was the buzzing of cars and the cold

sounds of gunshots and steel knives slicing through the air. These realities slipped into

my idle mind; but what haunted me most was the image of eyes—the eyes of onlookers,

staring at my silent body collapsed onto the ground of busy sidewalks. A pile of frayed

blankets and human stench, a burden to the privileged world—I was the trash that no man

would pick up: the trash that no man would deem as their own. People blurred, faces

blurred, but their dark and brooding eyed framed the blank canvases. Each day was

judgment day and their looks sent my skin aflame, so I left. I left the city and

walked—walked to the remote forest near the edge of town and I knew I would make my

life here in the Ponderosas: that was reality.

Bits of grey, brown stuck to my cheek like a perverted shaving cream, lathering

with my night’s drool into thick and musty foam that was too dense to wipe off in

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