So long.
As winds wraps itself carelessly
through the dunes
Blowing lines like swirls of hair,
Wrapping around the love that I feel for you
Ever winding, ever shifting
On the fabric of my longing
To hold you
To feel you next to me
To hear your breath beside me as you fall asleep.
Brown, gold, hues of amber
Ribbons of mountains so tiny
Laid bare across one
And the other
Downward to infinity
Like the loneliness I feel without you
The fear that strikes me from the depths
Just to entertain
For but a moment
A day beyond you.
Warm air flows and swirls in korus and heaving breaths
Blowing out, and there at its end, the silence
Of the calm deathlike space between my out breath and the next in
Of the emptiness that I feel in all manner of my being
To pretend for an instant
Like the desert pretends to harbour water
That you, my children, might not forever be
Here at my side…
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