Desert Rain

the ochre of the sands was a gift 

from the rain shadows they said;

they also said the infertile sands

could only taste the grains of salt.

yet, i was bound to be fallen...

blame it on the twinkle of her eye

or the tantalizing lure of her lips so sultry -

despite her choices, prior reservations 

or even the bond with another man,

the sudden bringer of mie joy

also brought along the sly sunken storms and 

affections so arid for mie heart...

and, i kept thinking -- 

sometime somehow the love will sing

and bid a farewell kiss to the long disdain

someday somewhere just the two of us

will drench n dance in the desert rain...

life resonated the sands of time.

and the clock stood still 

in the everlong quest for an oasis

and the longing chase for a mirage so blissful.

just as the clouds could never befriend

the 'pure sister of the ocean' and kept away

yet staring and denying the concerns to the self...

the rattlesnake in mie conscience forgot to sleep,

taken unaware and unknowingly, kept storing 

the green venom on the tip of its dry tongue

as it waited, perhaps for the last kiss

incapable of fighting the trapped heat in the sands...

and, i kept thinking

sometime somehow the love will sing

and bid a farewell kiss to the long disdain

someday somewhere just the two of us

will drench n dance in the desert rain...

life rejoiced the dusts of fall.

and the loner's fake attachment to his loneliness,

doped in the intoxicating whiffs

of the prickly pears and brittlebush scrubs...

the routine rambles in the cold of the moon

killed the dreams of the rustle of palm leaves,

and the tinker ringing of the neck-bells

mixed in a symphony of camel bleats 

and the childish howl of a coyote pup at a distance.

like the trust of the lonely bird migrating across the dunes, 

to perch on the saguaro when it needs to rest its wings,

the indomitable craving does no die...

and still, i keep thinking

sometime somehow the love will sing

and bid a farewell kiss to the long disdain

someday somewhere just the two of us

will drench n dance in the desert rain...