Footprints In The Sand

My footprints in the sand.
With each step I scar
The perfect desert's face.
So careful are my steps,
That my gait never staggers.
Even are the marks
That I leave between the dunes;
Never stopping to impress deeper,
Nor sitting to rest
To thus disgrace the sifting bed.
As day brings heat that we may know
The relief of the cool night,
So my footprints scar the sand
That I may know rest.
And when I rest,
May the wind erase my path.
So that others who wander
May find the same journey
In their own right.
Their footprints to scar the sand,
That they may know rest.