Desert Dune by Navid Amarlou

Radiating light shred through the gloom

Blinding all it captures

My feet shifting and pushing aside fading sands

Searing flesh with each drudging step

An ocean spread below a cavernous sky

Though it is so far I feel I cannot stand beneath its weight

Baring its burden upon my frame

Skin etched with the recurring tide

Of Wind beating upon my side

I lay still awaiting my bitter end

Scars by my hand I could not mend

Affixed to the shifting sands my skin cracked and mangled by beating sun

Skin cracks like sandstone broken

From it seeps crimson before split by darkness

I cry my final rhapsody

Approaching the end with alacrity

“Forgive me”

Sands shift over broken stone

Bones blanched by the beating sun

And a voice lost in the wandering winds of the desert

Navid K. Amarlou is a young, published, Iranian poet and author. His writing style includes themes of human emotion and speculation of human behavior and thought through the lens of existentialism. He is a hopeless romantic and engaged to the love of his life and best friend. His hobbies include reading, writing, loving his kitty, and thinking too much.