The desert is sucking the life out of me.<\/p>\n
Like a mummified Pharaoh with papyrus skin.<\/p>\n
The sun says “sweat”, but I have nothing more to give.<\/p>\n
Surrounded by sand, I am in the wrong place.<\/p>\n
I long for the waves, splash dancing with a<\/p>\n
shore welcoming each waves onslaught.<\/p>\n
Breeze sliding its fingers through my hair.<\/p>\n
The sun kisses on bare shoulders, backs and legs.<\/p>\n
I sit in the constant hum of exhausted AC.<\/p>\n
A noise of machines and isolation.<\/p>\n
Staring at a face on the pix-elated screen.<\/p>\n
wishing I could be on a towel in a different sand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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