By kevin urenda
Date: 7 November 1999

edge of desert

edge of desert This place is far lonelier than
I remember
you called me out of here
        or so I thought
to come away with you
    not just to play
but to refashion two lives into one
some small measure of
constancy to anchor to
    in a world changing at breakneck speed
love is supposed to be an oasis
  but
       in this desert of alone
I see no hint of hope, no mirage

Where
         there once was dedication
to a single future
there is again emptiness
as if "we" never existed

11.07.99


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