A silver gleam in the distance,
The sun telling me lies,
In the sand filled oblivion,
Flame plays across my shoulders,
Lashing me like a whip,
A shimmer on the horizon,
Like invisible fire forging existence,
It flees from me,
Or perhaps chases the sunset,
I only walk on to nothingness,
Day turns to dusk,
The fire once clear,
Wavers in rosy red,
The devils crimson eye glares across the
silvery void,
Casting it in eventide,
What’s this,
More deceit of the desert,
A spark moves in a valley,
Nestled between two dunes,
Across the vast desolation,
The fire on the crown of the world burns no
more,
Satan no longer gazes from the heavens,
No longer does he make them bleed with his
wrath,
In moments the sky burns brilliant once
again,
As innumerable stars sweep into the cosmos,
I fall faintly to my knees,
Humbled by infinity,
A great drama unfolds in the inferno,
The gods show me their secrets,
And the slivered moon cuts across the sky,
Slowly I drift,
Across time, space, and self,
Across the lunar landscape,
The universe guides me to my soul,
I find the spark in my spirit,
When the spell broke,
I awoke on the banks an oasis,
Shadows of tall palms swaying in the blue
glow of the night sky,
The azure waters beckoned to me,
Water lilies budding near the shore,
I rushed to the water,
Knelt to drink from the deep pool,
And let the sweet liquid flow down my chest
and cool my stinging back,
Never had water been this intoxicating,
It was as the best wine brought from lands
beyond the farthest seas,
I plunged into the cool refreshing depths,
Let it fill my every orifice,
Let it heal my sore, parched body,
Diving deep to the bottom,
Where there was not but a few flickering
beams from the moon,
No sound reached my ears,
No light touched my body,
No thoughts did I think,
Slowly my senses reawakened,
To see the world in a entire new reality,
A whole new self |