my sweet, undivided love
has travelled, for endless days and nights on end.
searching for the oasis that lies
between the sky scraping palm trees and the hard-glowing sun.
casting a beautiful, iridescent glow among
the soft rolling sand dunes.

the thirst begins to cause pain within my throat,
causing my body to shut itself out.

running is provocatively appropriate,
due to the desperation of quenching this heavy drought.

I begin to fall on the soft sand, drowning with it,
in the same way I drown with my sorrows.

years after years, my body sore, my body practically nothing,
I find the sky scraping palm trees.

I feel the hard-glowing sun.

yet,
there is no iridescent cast.

the oasis is gone.

and the only thing remaining,
is you.