In the stars

Your desert disguised the signs I left you
like magic sand serpents appeared
their elegant movements hypnotized you.
Weaving through the sand like an artist's
brush creating elaborate mosaics
of your deepest desires.
Still you did not see the signs I left you.
You could not see a way home.
Your abusers arrived re-enacting
for you how they ate your childhood
sucking out your happiness like sucking fat
from between meat & bone.
Then they showed you your nightmares
on a sandpaper screen.
Their abrasive fingers massaged you raw
as they watched you watching you watching
alluring Witches with their ovens open wide
inviting you to come in come into them
promising to stay to stay with you forever
if you never left them to find your way home. Sorry you never saw the signs I left you.Ileft them in the stars you looked in the sand.You did not find your way home.
You had too little time
to find a way home.
You had too much time
to be lost in your desert
                                                                

                                  Alone.

j.e.artis