A road, crickets, buildings, and the crushing weight of unfathomable vastness

Every weekday I walk the same path onto campus to attend classes and back to get home. Coming from a city constantly disrupted both visually and audibly by a bustling suburbia, this quiet trek home under the watchful eyes of stars and moon remains novel and beautiful to me. I imagine the universe was laughing when it placed me on this path, a perfect division between the towering corporate buildings and the powerful grace of nature as I crossed the threshold of humanmade and natural.