Opaque Silver Balls of Desert Mystery

Opaque Silver Balls Of Desert Mystery Opaque ball bearings rolled along the grayish sand in stealth Consuming all the landscape, leaving huge trenches in their wake Solid heavy objects larger than small houses raced below the dunes The moon could not mistake them for anything but strange Light lifted the dim unassuming movements in a grinding song Along a path we now call past Into daylight the orbs continued on, rapidly and clearly out of reach As glowing silver objects on a yellow grainy landscape Roll under sun A sun that knew nothing of such things from its perspective Casting doubts on the solidity and perfect roundability of the orbs And questions abounded why they did not orbit elsewhere Remotely out of reach, keeping distances unique And secrets of the dune Sun simply shed detective glows as far as one could know The silver objects rolled into the ancient stony town Flattened it as if it were not there Continued on to an oasis below the palms Which may or may not have been there in the first place Rolled up and disappeared as quickly as they came A mirage some say and so they faded in the desert day