The Desert Walk

I walk at sunrise.
I walk in the desert, days on end,
Barefoot and tattered clothes.
Trying to find you.

Nothing is lushly green,
Nothing but dried weeds and brown rock.
Mountains in the horizon,
Lustrous beauty before me.

High noon and I sweat.
Sun-soaked skin and sticky sweat.
I walk...
I walk keeping faith.
Keeping hope.

I can't see the end.
I can't see the hope I once had.
My body is starved from no food,
Dried from no water.

Twilight star came with sunset colors.
Heart aching, blistered like my skin through tatter clothes.
I find no end and I collapse.
It seems fate got to me...
Before I got to you.