Saturday, May 3, 2014

Desert Threads

It is better to live in the desert, and when pieces of your heart leave, they travel to wetter lands, where your heart might stay moist and alive, blooming like a plucked flower in sugar water. But me? I live where the sky is damp and dewdrops glisten on the grasses, and when my heart leaves in pieces to the deserted lands, it dries and dies, withered and cracked as weathered stones and the under-eyes of souls in windy lands.
And the arid heat grants no leave, for no heart survives to thrive in these sands. The bleeding heart dries, cauterized by the searing heat and the dust devils who’ve whisked away life. Lizards crawl into the cracks and crevices, scorpions scuttle along the empty passageways.

One day, two threads may meet; then will they recognize the seams the days have made?

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