Desert Song

Standing
On the cracked earth
Parched and broken
The vast desolation
Of once fertile plains
I can hear
The echo
Of waterfalls
The rustle of grass and leaves
The mulch fallen between the trees
As I walk among shifting sands
The memories of the land fill me
And I remember
You
Lush as you once were
Your tresses and your smiles
Cascading with life
Fertile

I tread now for the last time
On all that's left behind
As the echo of the wind
Dies softly on the hill
And ceases, forever still.