Reblog!
Firstly for the Word of the Day Challenge, and this poem of the all-devouring Shifting Sands (which I believe may have been a metaphor for a part of the mind) based on probably one of my best Noteflight compositions, which you can listen to either below the poem itself (on its original page) or on my Soundcloud profile.
Secondly, and perhaps most importantly, so I can mention that this poem is one of the many featured in my most recent published collection; Day By Day. You really should buy yourself a copy if you haven’t already. Or even if you have, why not buy another?
Lost and alone
In these treacherous lands
Known only as
The Shifting Sands
Many have entered
Yet none survive
Not even the ones
Who make it out alive
For here in the dunes
‘Neath the unsetting sun
There’s no footprints nor markers
To guide your return
The Sands devour
Each step that you take
They want you to stay
They won’t let you escape
You may be tempted to run
But there’s nowhere to hide
The Sands have consumed
All those that have tried
Driven mad from the heat
The hunger and thirst
The Sands never forgive
Once you walk them, you’re cursed
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