High Desert Flash Flood

The flash floods of the High Desert are sudden and violently destructive, deep emotions can be equally so.......................

 

High Desert Flash Flood

 

Deluge pours forth from within

Spilling, spreading, as

 

one stands still, aloof , time ceases

pain hangs in the balance, in  empty  moments

 

Silence prevails, while the

bleeding pools seep, again

 

Furrows wash, cutting through the barren dunes,

Fingers spread; eroding the landscape

Reaching, searching for answers

 

Fleeing in fear of  the  surging disaster

one , left behind; betrayed, a love is lost

 

Pain lashes out demanding recognition

Snarling, anger’s claws lacerate

one's words’ make  wounds

which never mend.

 

Flooding subsides

Consumed in the thirst of the sand

 A fear denies existence of the flood , absorbing it all

Dark clouds pass, last droplets fall

Dripping from the Joshua tree

 

Forming a brief stain only I know

marking what  flowed

that  empted the depths

 

Of me