desertification
It started with a light
a single life.
the light under the door
coming through the cracks in the windows
cracks under the lids
of my eyes
waking slowly
in your arms.
then came
the rain of life
a torrent of love
a tidal wave
curling around
broken pieces
sweeping away
the not so great parts.
a monsoon so mighty
we couldn't help but bend
to those feelings.
a natural disaster.
A disaster.
now the dry spell has set in.
the cracking of the crumbling
earth we walk
seperate paths
realizing
we are telling the same story
in a different language
painting words
wording pictures
same station
different wavelengths
synonomous inequality.
you are not the
yin
I am not the
yang
we are only fuel for the flames
now
a burning heat
When all the love dried up
all that's left is this emptiness
the empty space
between our hands
on the bench
your eyes so glazed
a man dying of thirst.
I want to scream
across this desert
but no matter how much I waved
smiled
laughed
cared
you never saw
never gave a sign you heard
a cactus corpse
a deadly
mirage.
now I am tired
dying slowly
I rest my head
on the burning sand
wishing you were here instead.
I can almost hear
your heart beating
or maybe it's mine?
Always mine.
never more
never less
this dizzy double vision
the illusion of another
way we could have
gone.
so I get up
give up
on you.
and the heart that
swept me off my feet
and abandoned me
to the elements.
walk away through the haze
blazing hot anger
coursing through my veins
drying up the last
of my love
any sympathy
for you.
sandswept hair
cracking skin
burning eyes
but you will never see me
cry another tear
again
for I am fading
blending
shifting
into a brilliant disguise
that endless desert
now reflected
in my eyes.