My own tears
Melted my mountains
Into molehills.
The salty miniature
Ocean bites
Brought my heart
To dunes.
And as it washed
All over me
How wrong I'd been
Forever,
The painted sands
Clanked out
Their wistful tunes.

"Come and see
The sun set
In the desert.
Come watch
The stars fall
Out of the sky,
Like Raggedy Ann
With her arms
All akimbo,
Flinging herself
Off the night stand
Again."

-jenn