Red, golden flame sand dusted beauty,
Oil painted pastel tainted inferno bursting through me
It’s not a sight but an emotion portrayed vividly
Sage tickles a sense that is engraved into my soul
The concrete scent of my mind becoming whole
My primary goal is to show you not tell you
What I see in the vast openness of my refuge
Below the introverted sky the plateau
Flows shadows onto red sand
God’s unplanned command
Left us with this unused land
Life lacks abundance delineated
In an awaited canyon
Its only companion is a man lost but free
Guaranteed to be pushed to the last degree
Of mental sanity
It’s a place for no weakness set aside by society
Unwanted for its unusable grounds
Surrounded by so much left to be found
The hollow hum of the wind is a song yes a sound
Singing aloud to an abundant crowd
Who just stopped by to listen
The sun is blinding therefore it does glisten
The tiresome time tediously trickles away
The rocks they decay with each new day
To be portrayed in a different way than they did today
I stay and lay with no words left to say
The suns rays weigh a ton on this tattered skin
My cloths stay light but my body wears thin
When I begin to take in what’s felt within
My mouth is dry and my palms are soaked
I choked trying to conjure up meaning to this thought
I’m in love with Mother Nature’s daughter
I love this place and that’s the way it’ll always be
I need her and she needs me
And together we’re free
Here I can flirt with the depth of my mind
Open my eyes and see like the blind
A vision confined behind a disability
But I would kill to be able to hear what a blind man sees
It’s really beautiful if you think about it in a different way
It’s more symbolic than the most delicate roses in a bouquet
I wish that I could live here but I know I can’t stay
So in class each day I’ll slip away to this place where my mind can play