Empty Road

the red dust
drifts through
the sleeping air

the scales of light
coil around my thoughts
and drag hollow names
from the slender ground

water cased effigy
drowned by the darkness
and thrown from star to star
is crushed
in their laughter

wrapped around
my slumped daydreams
your silent slaughter
of drunken joy
burns for me

dying behind the iron gates
this absent earth
this invisible world of green
shoots needles of song
into the dirt

the emptiness
inside the closed arm
the eyes of fire
and hearts of pride
steal soft amber
from my impatient soul

while the sun sets