A Never-Ending Yen

It's time to go back - the insatiable craving for the outside and the rough feel of boulders is in full force. It will drive me mad this separation. On top of the dentist appointments, the painkillers, the lack of sleep, I haven't eaten in over a day. And the homework just keeps rolling over my head.

In school, I am a classmate, and at the library a hard-working page; but within this bubble, where no one knows what the V rating stands for, I am a boulderer alone.

It's time to go back.