The Perpetual Hourglass Desert
By Malachi Luke
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Campbell High School
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Grade 12
Again she spent her day walking the sands
Seeing only the coarse land and weathered ruins
With her hair full of sediments, tied with a band
In the land without weather that might flow so fluid
She had been venturing aimlessly for countless weeks
Though she still blossomed with redundant hope
Hopes that one day, over the dunes’ peaks
She’d see another along those slopes
From such fantasies she’d never awake
And forever these dreams served as a cloak