Tuesday, August 31, 2021

In the Desert

 

By a string of well-tamed camels

I walk along slowly and silently as one of them

Crossing sand dunes after sand dunes

Under the extreme heat and dry sky

 

Sand under my feet begins to mark my steps, and counting

 

I and the group are one on the journey

Together surviving extreme adversity 

As one settled in a culture of harmony

Yet alone I am burdened with dreams and fantasies

 

I am puzzled

 

Don't know where I am heading

May be there is no answer to life 

Don't know what I am going for 

May be being in a group is the meaning of life

Don't know why I am questioning

May be having a sense of belonging needs to pay a price

Fated to thinking the same, doing the same

 

And feeling the same, then getting lost the same

 

I look up to the sky for an answer

Searching for a mirage mirroring my dreamy mind

To install all my hopes, aspirations and sentiments 

In that rainbow cloud

 

In this life!


S.P. Ma

Aug 2021

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