Desert Heart

Desert Heart

By

Lisa A.Williams

Desert heart-

nomad in a lonely land of

                                                                     fallen memories

brittle pieces of self-

cracks in the surface

only we ourselves can see.

Parched heartland

which can give no more

than what is

beneath the stone

we have set

in our solitary quest

to quench

the  undying thirst

for the why

 of us.