Hiya.... looking for something to post tonight.... and dont have anything to bring..... I guess I will share a poem that I havent put out there too much.... it's been a long dry spell with the poetry.... I need to write again........ this is from last Winter but was written in the Spring of 2005.
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"The Heart's Mirage"
You were my blossom in the sands
The desolate wastes of the empty quarter
You left me and my outstretched hand
and took yourself beyond the borders....
of this empty place
An awesome wide open space
To find the heavenly voices that called you.....
into this desert wasteland
Where you knelt in the sand and prayed
Just like the ancients did before too
The cruel sun ravaging your face
The wind on the dunes
leaving no trace
of your passionate pilgrimage
to the secret holy place
I watched the sunset for your
silhouette
But you never returned to me
I scanned the endless hope filled horizon
and thought of where you might be......
In an oasis in the valley of death
the cool water washing your skin
as you worship in the Garden of Eden
will you remember me and then.....
return across the dunes
the way that you came
You will follow your heart
and return to the flame
of the one that watches for you
through every long night
There has been no word
There has been no sight
of my lost desert angel
alone in the vast sea
of hot rock and sand
Each step blistering
And so I succumb to the
Sirens of the desert
and I am now lost here in the dunes
I cry out into the Arabian night
but there is no echoing cry from you
I promised to search forever
but I fear the time is coming soon
to fall into a thirsty sleep
alone, in a broiling rocky tomb
At the moment of my passing I finally see
you and I in an oasis of tropical green
Splashing and laughing in the heart's promised land
or is this just another cruel mirage in this shimmering, hopeless
sea of sand.....
"The Heart's Mirage" and photographs --Copyright Scott Scarborough; 2007
