<p><br></p><p>Just was it? Never what you’d expect.</p><p>Raw, flesh, bloodied red and dirt earth.</p><p>Like the taste of water sediment echoing in an empty cup.</p><p>Now I am taken back. </p><p>To a foreign land, </p><p>This terrain my skin. </p><p>Transformed to a dusty rocky origin. </p><p>An old tree, wild life springs about.</p><p>The scorching sunset </p><p>quenching her thust by the mirage.</p><p>A familiar sound blankets the evening. </p><p>Drowning the silence in long melodies, </p><p>vowels weaved through tradition of gone days.</p><p>Red.</p><p>Dust paints it all.</p><p>The night rises, like a warrior. </p><p>Shadows by the blazing flame… crackling bone fire. </p><p>Chest drums a language foreign to the tongue. </p><p>An ancestral chant, the warriors' courage.</p><p>On the Tree of Life, truth sits. </p><p>A huntress watching. Preying. </p><p>Is that not just?</p>