Sahara Dreams

Time crystallised into every golden grain Fine as the flakes off my skin For a thousand years void of rain Rising to Rah with the slope of the dunes Crocodile tears fill the Nile For they flourish for a thousand miles To nourish – with sacrifice - Pharaoh in his tomb Then deposit the salt off your back into the desert storm In the shade of a hundred degrees of sun Chiselled into a hieroglyphic sign Sahara dreams rose with the pyramids of Giza Ensured to succeed under the Sphinx’s gaze Carried on the back of camels To churn their milk into caramel The sands hide a bullion of molten gold A haunted dynasty were souls are fossilised into a mould Under the crack of the whiplash The God’s sweat pores brimming a mirage To align boulders with the sunspot in agonising screams Pharaoh now rests for eternity in his Sahara dreams 31-07-2015 Thabang Jan Ngoma Sponsor: John lawless Contest Name: How Hot Was It!!!