Aa Harvey

The desert road

The desert road

Vulture eyes look down on me

And as I pass them by, I live and I breathe.

They are waiting in anticipation, just to feed their greed;

But that time is not too soon, in becoming an eventuality.

Onward I walk under the desert heat, with dancer’s feet;

There is no mistaken direction taken by me

And nobody to meet, on this sand-swept road.

No humanity to be heard in the distance and no water oasis to behold.

Just the sweat that pours down from my brow;

My glazed eye balls cannot fail me now,

As I stare into the bright blue sky, searching for a cloud.

A Foreign Legion lies behind me in the distance;

I have left it all behind.

For I am a Prince in search of a Princess;

I am a scorpion upon the sand, no keeper of time.

In an hour glass I shook the sands of my life

And back to the front is the only way now.

The world is all mixed up in this barren time line.

I passed away a long time ago,

But on I wander and only I know,

How this arduous journey will end

And where I will find my relief.

For I have learned of my destiny,

From a mystic inside a tent,

My money spent,

My future has been told,

In exchange for two pieces of silver;

Pieces of eight, that have been made from gold.

So onward I walk, in search of a soulmate and salvation…

Along the desert road.