Drought

Happiness has been gone

For too many months

Left my mouth parched

And my emotions scorched

Loathing, I wake each morning

Wondering how much longer

I will need to wander

Through these crumbling streets

And people are dust storms

Whirling around me

Filling the air with dirt and lies

And they know

Happiness has been gone

For too many months

I detest these endless horizons

Barren and fractured

I find myself trying to remember

What love tasted like

These days my mouth is parched

And emotions scorched

So easy for hatred to roll in

Settle in the wrinkles around my eyes

Get wedged under these nails

Skin cracks under the heat

And I find I don’t know

What disgusts me more

You or me

For when hatred rolls in

You find you really have nothing

Empty and barren

With pain blistering your feet

Sorrow collecting in palms

Lost in a world broken and fractured

Holding nothing but a thirsty heart

A parched mouth and scorched emotions

For happiness has been gone

For too many months