The Burden

Weary from unending sameness, 'cross the sand unknown and nameless
wandering mind though far from blameless, lead to this ignoble chore.
He struggled on, sun unrelenting and his mind it was tormenting
him with things it was inventing, things he longed to see and so much more.
Oasis with its palm trees shading crystal pools, his lover wading
near the waterfall cascading calling him to join her on the shore.
He longed to linger there forever more

Mirage it was, oh evil vision, done with exquisite precision
captured soul still held in prison of the heart behind an unseen door.
Clarity like lightning flashing, came to him, memory lashing
at his heart, life crashing shattered tattered useless on the floor.
The two lovers paths divided, she would go but he, undecided
would stay, her decision derided, only pleading when she walked on out the door.
How he longed for strong Darjeeling, carefully he was concealing
How his heart and mind were reeling when she walked on out the door.
Now he must find her, nothing more

So this quest he slowly started, months have passed since she departed
For new beginning that she charted for herself on far flung foreign shore.
Now upon the desert weary, mind not sharp instead quite bleary,
survival outlook rather dreary as he fell upon his face to rise no more.
Lack of water slowly draining any strength that was remaining
in his muscles cramped complaining, now void of any movement they once bore.
As he lay there slowly dying, bleary mind struggling, trying
hard to see lost love undying, to see the girl who left him on the shore.
With last breath whispered love to his 'Lenore'