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I lack the words, the syntax, to Xerox my feels to you. These caravan routes we walk, in the shadows of our freight, are just a path, a swath of yesterdays and tomorrows strung together by moments. We carry these deeds, these sins of deliverance, to the next stop, hawking the wares, the smell of camels thick, tasting the heat of the desert, collecting its sand, blinded by the sun, but never by its promise. Shielding our eyes, we carry on in the dark, seeking oasis, that eventual moment in the shade of the palms, the emergence from the cool waters, the feeling of clean skin.
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Aug 17, 2014
Aug 17, 2014 at 10:35 PM UTC
Clean Skin
I lack the words, the syntax, to Xerox my feels to you. These caravan routes we walk, in the shadows of our freight, are just a path, a swath of yesterdays and tomorrows strung together by moments. We carry these deeds, these sins of deliverance, to the next stop, hawking the wares, the smell of camels thick, tasting the heat of the desert, collecting its sand, blinded by the sun, but never by its promise. Shielding our eyes, we carry on in the dark, seeking oasis, that eventual moment in the shade of the palms, the emergence from the cool waters, the feeling of clean skin.
derek-yohn
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Aug 17, 2014
Aug 17, 2014 at 10:35 PM UTC
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