DESERT ROSE

On this stretch
of undulating strip
of ceaseless sands
where rolling winds
blow dust and heat
far far beyond
the beyond far
beyond the eye
can truly see
stretching like the
skies beyond the
immense galloping horizon
horizon trailed by
unbroken tracks of
bleached bones and
grinning skulls sown
as reminders to
the undying hunger
and greed of
man bent on
dipping into the
sea or die

on this boundless
unbroken cauldron of
heat dust and
certain death certified
by our unbroken
greed and watered
by the blazing
merciless and grinning
withering sun on
this measureless mat
devoid of cooling
oases or shades
of baobab trees
touches the heart
of heaven and
out of pity
out of this
dry forsaken parch
breaks forth a
twisted swollen hand
thrusting to the
blazing sun the
most dazzling beauty
of all beauties
bedecked in hues
of pink and
crimson the sweet
smiling desert rose