Saturday, December 21, 2024

A desert inside and out Sept. 14, 2012

 

I ache for the kiss of rain

To ease the pain of my parched lips

A drought to acute inside me,

I might be the Sahara with

No oasis just mirages

No hop of cloud,

Just the ever swirling sand

Blinding me, inside and out,

She resting on a barge

In the ever so distant Nile,

A queen waiting on Antony

Which is definitely not me,

Never was, only

In my imagination,

I paint myself in his place,

Already ruined by my inability

To reach where she is,

I am no Caesar

To call her to task,

To drag her back to Rome

In chains,

To tame her when

No man can,

Some nights,

I taste her kiss again

A mirage more illusion

Than all the other

Mirages combined,

A desperate wish

Or a man already

Lost beyond hope,

Letting the blowing sand

Rattle my brain,

Filling the void I feel,

The hole in me,

The absence no

Imaginary sand can fill

I still thirst,

Still crave

Still wish for something

I will wish for

Over and over until

The sand builds my graved

And may still

Wish for it,

After that.


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