Free verse № 125822
Nomad's Oasis
A man got lost in a desert
Yet learned to love its landscape
and soon became a nomad.
He tried to make a shelter,
but sand is a weak foundation.
So he burned from the sun
froze from the moon,
drank from sweat and tears
devoured refusal to stop searching
for the promised land.
He collapsed by an oasis
upon a bleached sea of bonesâ
all laid facing west
reaching out from times savage breast
hollow eyed and all seeing
from hells cataract
where heaven is a mirage
unreachable as a woman.
Water filled the valleys
Of his cracked hands,
Hope filled his heart
Amongst the void.
He screamed out a name and a message
And the echo spat back just the name.
His words had reached her
And he said them again before he died
âI love youâ.
When he said it she awoke
And she whispered:
âHe has found meâ
âHe is not goneâ
âBut all around meâ
'we are one'.
When she died she found him
On the sands of New Mexico
His tears had turned to jewels
And they made love on a grave
By a headstone which read:
âThere is no dead hereâ
âJust love which lives eternalâ.
4 comments
<< where heaven is a mirage
unreachable as a woman >>
'where heaven is a mirage
as unreachable as a woman'
the repeted 'as' is not elegant, but the sentence makes more sense this way. You could also opt for this:
'where heaven is like a woman,
a mirage',
The last stanza:
In wandering through the afterlife
she found him on the sands of New Mexico
His tears had turned to jewels
and jewels turned to tears
when they made love on a grave
in the shade of a headstone which read
'Eternal love
for the dead'
What on earth do you mean by, "heaven is a mirage unreachable as a woman."
From stanza two:
drank from sweat and tears devoured refusal
to stop searching for the promised land.
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