Life in the desert

It stretches out forever

Empty and stark

Rocks and sagebrush

Little more

It is a great emptiness

And that emptiness resonates

And you realize

There is not enough out there

To fill or satisfy

In the desert you dry up

You starve

Sometimes slowly

And sometimes

In the heat of trial, quickly

Becoming shriveled

We do not get to escape the desert

It is there

And we must go through the desert

To get to that new place

God has in mind

We are tempted to believe that we wander the desert alone

And there are times that desert solitude comforts

But we soon know

That we cannot make it

Through the desert

Out of the desert

Alone

But God is

But God is there

But God is there and

Brings forth water and manna

From the emptiness that is our soul

From the hard rock is our heart

And so we take another step

And wander yet another day

Seeing beauty in desert

In the rock

The sage

Wandering with God