desert

this sadness, i say, has broken my last moment of sanity
into ten thousand daisies
blooming in a desert bounded by mirages of life and happiness.

i am the desert void of happiness - full of mirages.
and daisies blooming within me

be the caravan passing through my dried up body
embrace my loneliness
fill your heart with my mirage of a lover’s sigh
and a touch
a caress
and a teardrop

and leave me

do not look into my emptiness
and the darkness of my nights
but
look up to the stars
and
whisper my name
and be merry
and
sing a song
and I will keep it
within me

and in the darkest of my nights
I will let sand storms carry your song
and the daisies to every corner of my soul

but

leave me
at the dawn of the day

leave me

leave me for the guarded gardens of one thousand and one nights

leave me

and I will remember
three drops of blood

and -

a whisper