31 August 2012

A way of life

On top a plateau

The wind flowing freely

As the eagle soars them

It piercing cry

Echoes through the night

Joined by the jackal

Whose lonely nights

Are filled with scavenging

And the land whose dirt is sand

Blows away in the breeze

Cacti of different types

Are the trees of this land

They hold water inside

Beneath their prickly needles

Life sustaining liquid

Runs in them

The animals of this land adapt

They meet the challenges

Of this unlivable environment

Day by day

The weakest die and strongest survive

This is part of desert life

16MoonlightDesert Life • Opuss № I