The lone hungry coyote
Sends up a wraith's refrain
Sun melts in a crucible
Of purgatory pain.

The badlands. No man's land.
The sun bleeds crimson, rust.
Rattlesnakes and scorpions
Scuttle in the dust.

While the sky is falling
Making russet snow
The hills and rock are singing
The agony they know.

Unforgiving desert
Makes the bobcat scream
The moon face is crying
It's tears moan and gleam.

In a dream you take me
O'r the Martian scape
Your hand locked round my mind
Preventing my escape

Turquoise/silver stars
Fall onto my path
Just like Armageddon
Or its aftermath.

Black opals flame the hills
The brutal badland's tors
To hush my ragged breathing

Now... forevermore.


Soul Survivor
C. Jarvis (c) 2014
March 16