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!!!
Copyright © Thabang Ngoma | Year Posted 2015
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