Golden Desert Light

Complete silence follows the ways of sand At dawn the sky cracks open on the dunes Golden desert light rises hot Filled with pain along the ridge By afternoon the world turns rusty brown Dryness craws along with armored insects Scorpions are perfect black with anger at their points A snake takes on the quickness of an arachnid attack With no witness and for what it is, away from the oasis A different kind of poison settles into pain Venom burning through the veins Systems fall apart with no escape Under the unforgiving sun by dinner time The victims bones blend into yellow brown On an empty landscape baron, scales evaporate With the aid of nature waiting on the day Desert returns to quiet once again