Desert Of Despair

Desert Of Despair
© Surazeus
2018 08 16

Stopped at the locked door of the ancient church,
she listens to angels inside stone hall
sing ethereal hymns of transcendent peace,
then steps inside the church of empty wind.

Running a thousand miles through the stone church,
she chases shimmer of light in the gloom
but stops at the edge of the desolate canyon
where sorrow lurks in shadows of despair.

She whispers to the stone angel with eyes
which bore into the center of the world
that she remembers when her mother left,
and waits to hear her call forgotten name.

Motionless in beam of indifferent light,
she opens her mouth to explain the reason
she left her home to find the promised land,
and walked across the desert of despair.

Sensing someone walking into the church,
she waits a thousand years in drifting dust,
then turns to smile at the shadow of horror
that vanishes at the breath of her hope.

Leaning over the silver bowl of water,
she stares into the emptiness of why
beyond the shimmering veil of her unface
to know the spark of stars in hungry cells.

She explains to Jesus in the stain-glass window
how she walked with her mother to escape
gangs of thieves across desert of despair,
searching for the good life in paradise.

Jesus beams in sunlight as she describes
how they sent her mother back to their land
but kept her in the air-conditioned cage
where she watched television shows and cried.