Running

From the chill of silence,

As a road snakes forward

Though open desert

And sidewinds through Eden   

 –

Chased

Through an empire’s fading spark

Where the sidewalks are beaten

Into dust behind your stride

–

Midnight looms large

Behind our searching eyes

Always hungrily scouring

Pouring light into the abyss

–

For all that shimmers

And staves off the cold,

To keep the silence from growing

And our bones from being sown