Red Desert

I find myself feeling like decades have passed
I’m an old woman now and I have lost my attraction
I’m tortured by a feeling of drowning
Under you, under society, politics
The decay of nature
My lack of interest
And I feel desperate

Some experience under our skin forever
Like the trauma of child abuse
I feel my eyes tearing up
What should I do with them?
Should I watch?
I can’t look at the sea for long
I’ll lose interest in what’s happening on land

I want to look at something real
To hear a human voice
And trust that it comes from a human voice
To trust that it comes from a human
Who was made like me
To touch a pair of lips
And at the same time know that it was a pair of lips
To watch everything is so deceptive

To hear a human voice
And trust that it comes from a human
Who was made like me
To touch a pair of lips
And at the same time know
That it was a pair of lips
To watch everything is so deceptive