The Desert - 2014

​You left me to rot in this dry eternity,
Cloud nine turned to ashes long ago.
Why did life go haywire?
When did happiness crumble?
Not a hint of a happy mirage,
Not a whiff of a drunken daze,
Sobriety looms on the horizon,
As far as the eye can see.
And there is nothing I can’t see.
Orthogonal sunlight assails the land,
As sand meets sky and sky meets sand.
The desert takes me into its desolation,
And I submerge in its vast river of dust.
I walk the straight path to nowhere,
I follow the endless dusk,
And wait for time to end.