Come Away to the Desert

Where scorch burns the rotten

pale rocks lie their stories along the riverbed

faults are many and blame is never done 

Come live in the desert

where luscious things die

and the dust of the ancients

tastes sandy in your eyes

Come lie in the desert with me 

until everything we imagine is true

we’ve been framed by many

jagged peaks pushing bravely up

outline the empty sky 

Come away to the desert

where there is no time 

but the bones of the earth 

no rules 

but the Sun’s unquenchable thirst 

Come away

and pray with me

until our minds become one

and God isn’t some mystery

we think is long gone

until our hearts feel the memory

we were always apart

but never alone