The desert road

 
 
Vulture eyes look down on me  
And as I pass them by, I live and I breathe.  
They are waiting in anticipation, just to feed their greed;  
But that time is not too soon, in becoming an eventuality.  
 
 
Onward I walk under the desert heat, with dancer’s feet;  
There is no mistaken direction taken by me  
And nobody to meet, on this sand-swept road.  
No humanity to be heard in the distance and no water oasis to behold.  
Just the sweat that pours down from my brow;  
My glazed eye balls cannot fail me now,  
As I stare into the bright blue sky, searching for a cloud.  
 
 
A Foreign Legion lies behind me in the distance;  
I have left it all behind.  
For I am a Prince in search of a Princess;  
I am a scorpion upon the sand, no keeper of time.  
In an hour glass I shook the sands of my life  
And back to the front is the only way now.  
The world is all mixed up in this barren time line.  
 
 
I passed away a long time ago,  
But on I wander and only I know,  
How this arduous journey will end  
And where I will find my relief.  
For I have learned of my destiny,  
From a mystic inside a tent,  
My money spent,  
My future has been told,  
In exchange for two pieces of silver;  
Pieces of eight, that have been made from gold.  
So onward I walk, in search of a soulmate and salvation…  
 
Along the desert road.  
 
 
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