Desert Dance

Desert Dance Innocent, these sand dunes wait Under cloudless, starry skies Unenlightened of their fate While moonlight dances and belies. Silently, upon on a dune, In silhouetted shapely form Baton in hand she taps a cue To hail a scene long waited for. Stout winds rise now for the West The dance begins in pure blue light. Seizing each blunt element She pulls at them with all her might. Soon every star is given rout Obscured by clouds as black as blight All must obey to carry out Her every willful wish tonight. With purging sheets of pelting rain In unrelenting feral might To pummel hard upon the back Of every single thing in sight. The thunder growls bombastic songs To lightnings jagged blades of light And all have waited oh so long For such a tumult as this night. But once exhausted, meek withdrawal, She leaves the stars their last few hours Till nothing’s left of force and squall Except a sea of desert flowers.