Dust

I tumbled down a desert road The wind dusting my flaccid face Asking the parched pavement Where I could find another race My body was worn by life Fading beneath an amber sky Holding onto a jagged horizon Whose god somehow led awry I drank from the rusty ruins Bleeding in humanity’s place Searching for a fabled sign That vanished without a trace My eyes sank into the desert road Wiping the film from promises past Leaving the dust of this civilization For one that would somehow last