Retrospect

The sands crumble neath my feet,

The distant dunes my only repose,

Dancing around me the grains mock

Each shard, a memory time forgot,

They shimmer and glow of a pride past prime

That swallows one whole, in seduction sublime

Of grandeur long since without glimmer

Of a long forgotten cool winter.

In retrospect i yearn to seek

a time beyond my life so meek.

Past, present and future meet

as these grains scratch and wound my naked feet.

and in the distance the oasis glows

with a falsehood that only mankind knows

for when i reach her, the mirage fades

and i look back as my feet once again though sand it wades

In retrospect i see my journeys naught

for in this maelstrom i have been caught