To Know | Ashlee Lyman

Looking around
The burnt sage and dry earth
Stretch far across my eyes.
This land is sun burnt and old.
This sky is big against the red earth.
I leave my footprints in the red dirt
As I walk through the hot desert.
I sweat in this hot desert sun.
As I walk through the hot desert.
I'm surrounded by red and pink and white sandstone.
It's not white- it's ivory.
I walk through the hot desert
Over rocks and dried wood.
I walk over the red, under the turquoise
And next to the green cacti.

I know what it is like
To sweat.
I know what it is like
to thirst for
clear
cold
water.
Looking around
The sage and sun burnt earth
I know what it's like
to strive-
to live.