i have gone and bleached you out.
like a stain of wine on my favorite shirt
i have purged you gone.
the red sea has swallowed you whole
your chariot will ride
no more.
yet what land or sea
could keep you to begin
with?
you unearthed yourself
from the desert sand
and in your thirst
you drank me dry.
how selfish you are!
the red sea will swallow you whole
and water your mouth its fill
of love and
salty greed in the desert.
And should the sea spit you out, the
sand will not take you back.
you will wander to sinai
but your feet will not rest.
you are never satisfied, afterall,
with the ground you have tread
or the mouths you have loved.
so wander the desert,
my dear, until it takes
you back.
