By Blue Song
Date: 2003 Sep 17
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desert truth

sands so thick like flour
soft to draw one in
carry with it the heat
of an uncareing sun
as steps are taken
to defeat the day
wafting high settle slow
with each foot tred
sands which drink not water
but only ones very soul
baked dry from the body
this heat... this sun
not of mercy shed
and yet even here
where the very air
burns slow the finger tips
one's own thoughts on love
is all that makes one go
and take that very next step
and the next... till the time
after all tears... these that blind
rising from all that's left
of a time broken mind
one is finally free
from deserts
desolate waste
and ones love is as a rising
heat...
encircled within one's arms
once more...