You lay there an emerald stone The red horizon burns your face but it cannot reach your core By midday the ocean drenches and quenches you before it invites you in You swim with a wealth of gold and silver but still you don’t belong Before the sun greets the moon you are pushed on to the shore Over and between the gigantic treads, you lay as they just past you by The sky burns an orange beam that kisses your complexion to reveal its rawest beauty How you long to be caressed by another who can see how you glow Even though earth has nurtured you forever, you thirst for what it cannot provide The moon smiles but what does he know The stars gather around and they hold hands in the sky They do not know such loneliness They are humungous compared to you the speck of dust in the sand The sand is your blanket that folds you in When day dawns you won’t want to be awoken and revealed by the wind
