Wanted

Wind swept mountains
  Dried in the sun
Valleys of death 
  Filled with hopelessness 
  No shelter to be found
Sun dried bones
 Yearning for lifes' one savory drop
Yet life is here
  Abundant to be found
Oceans held deep
  Inside a thorny tree
Alas no lifes' cool drop
  No even one for me
Copyright © | Year Posted 2006

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