Poem: Decide

 

Decide

 

to trudge in a sweaty flesh of moisture

while waterless specks yield in profusion,

 

and the dunes tug on your shoes,

begging you to pen a sentence

they have tried forever to compose.

 

you become the desert’s ghostwriter,

coerced on topics such as gone mountains

and oceans stolen away drop by drop.

 

it is you, now, who must eulogize 

all the disintegrated glories under your feet.

 

you who must mollify

the hungers that lap at your ankles,

beseeching in heat waves.

 

it is you, a mere passing puff of sentience,

who must decide.

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6/30/24