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poem, dune, frank herbert, science fiction, desert, fremen, shai-hulud, arrakis

(this poem is inspired by the scenery of the science fiction classic and epic Dune)

DESOLATION

FROM UP ABOVE I SAW THE BUILDING

STANDING ALL ALONE AMIDST THE RUINS OF THE PLAIN

STANDING ALONE BRAVE AND DEFIANT

AGAINST THE ONSLAUGHT OF THE DUST SANDS

BLOWN BY THE WIND

AND ATOP THE THREE HUNDRED STORY BUILDING

SITTING ON THE EDGE, HIS FEET DANGLING ON THE AIR

IS A CHILD IDLY PASSING THE TIME

BY GAZING UPON THE WASTELAND OF HIS HOME

THE WIND BLOWS AND HIS RAGGED CLOTHES CLING

TO HIS SMALL BODY LIKE FISHES FIGHTING THE STREAM

THE BOY COVERS HIS FACE FROM THE SAND AND THE DUST

AND THE HOWLING NOTHINGNESS THAT

BOMBARDS ITS PRESENCE

THE WINDS DIED AND ONLY A BREEZE REMAINED

PROPELLED BY THE HEAT THAT MELTS THE HOPE

OF ANYONE WHO EVER SETS HIS EYES UPON

THE EVERLASTING GOLDEN WASTES OF DUNE

THE SUN IS TOXIC AND THE AFTERNOON IS ETERNAL

THE WORLD HAS STOPPED TURNING AND WE ARE ON THE EDGE

OF THE WORLD WITNESSING THE END

THE BUILDING IS CRAGGY AND OLD AND ABANDONED

THE VARIOUS METAL PARTS RUSTED AND SCORCHED

THE CEMENT THIN AND BRITTLE

THE CRACKS LIKE VINES EVER GROWING

FROM UP ABOVE I DRIFTED DOWN

AND LANDED UPON THE SOFT SAND

THE WINDS HAVE STARTED TO HOWL FIERCELY

AND THE SWIRLS AND CLOUDS OF GOLDEN DUST BLANKETED THE WHOLE WORLD