By chris
Date: 2008 Mar 01
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I Am the Desert

I am the desert;
I am the dry earth
waiting
(for what it's
worth)
to be made wet with
your kisses,
given new life by
your sighs,
as all
parched places
miss
the rain
and bottomless blue
skies
miss broad-winged,
soaring
birds.

There are no words
for some things.
We use them
because they're all
we have.
So that
which requires
the language
of touch
becomes translated
instead into a kind
of poetry
of mad
desire -
a fire
that once started
can do nothing
but burn
itself out.