I am not truly aware as he covers me with sand.<\/p>\n
I am just a body. I remotely see. I don’t feel.<\/p>\n
Grains slip, a fine miat flowing softly.<\/p>\n
Some on what was my eye. Some on the material wrapped tight.<\/p>\n
But he does only a handful, another. He stops.<\/p>\n
His hands over his face. He cries.<\/p>\n
Strange little man. None cried for me in life. Now his tears flow. Beyond.<\/p>\n
They would coat the desert but the desert is too vast. <\/p>\n
No sound here. No coyote. No wind. No human.<\/p>\n
Just a body and a man lost in the waves of soft erasure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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