Smoke and Steam

Walking through the forest

looking for nothing, as you have already found what you came for

all around you

You go to a place

so dense with trees and brush that you cannot see too far ahead

All around you, casting shadows everywhere

You go here

to find clarity

For it is dense with physical shadows, not mental ones

You feel heat, greater and greater

A fire

The trees are burning

The lake is heating

Smoke rises

Steam rises

They blow over to you

Surrounded

You have to find a way out

Your view obscured by these forces you cannot fight

Not at this moment

It is now impossible to avoid both

These must be equally bad

you may think

Smoke and Steam both blind your sight

But you can breathe in one of them