Kyle Oye
Howling desert winds
Blowing, churning, flinging sand
Staining the earth red
Scorching beams of sun
Rising waves of heat distort
Baking the hot earth
Red dust stings my eyes
Scorched by the sun I wander
Lost in the desert
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