Jo Bien Poet Free verse

Oasis

I could see it off in the distance 
it beckoned, like an oasis to the parched 
a haze of palm trees and flowing fountains 
shade and respite, laughter and love 
an offering of the sweetest wine, a promise of a lifetime 

mirage--the closer I get the further off it seems 
never quite able to grasp, to taste 
to drink my fill of you 
the wind blows, the sand shifts 
the oasis no longer visible 
if it was ever there at all

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