{"sf1_id":352153,"sf2_id":"A1pbzj2m","title":"Oasis","author":"Xandie","words":191,"posted_at":"2012-03-10T18:50:00.000Z","tags":["First Person","Love","Poem"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/352153-oasis","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/A1pbzj2m","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/d5/5c/d55c6da2-183a-4018-b45d-af6b056cc6e7","description":"Poem...","content":"I have this dream night after night\n\nThat I am alone In a desert of scorching sand\n\nAnd I am so very thirsty\n\nI walk\n\nAnd I walk\n\nAnd I walk\n\nAimlessly\n\nIt feels As though I walk these circles\n\nEndlessly\n\nMy thirst never quenched\n\nAnd I feel as though I might\n\nCry\n\nJust to drink my own tears\n\nBut my eyes are dry\n\nMy tears stolen by the sun\n\nBefore they even reach my parched lips\n\nHours and\n\nHours go by\n\nSlow\n\nAnd I begin to feel my feet drag\n\nAnd just as I feel I might die with one more step\n\nI see it\n\nThere is this incredible\n\nBeautiful\n\nCrystal\n\nWaterfall\n\nAnd it doesn't occur to me\n\nHow this waterfall comes to be\n\nAs I run\n\nUnsteadily\n\nInto its clear azure water\n\nAnd I breathe in\n\nAs I inhale the scent of it\n\nMy mind comes back to me\n\nAnd then I realize\n\nI am still here\n\nIn these sheets\n\nRight next to you\n\nAnd the waterfall was your hair\n\nAnd the intoxicating scent\n\nYour skin\n\nAnd I understand\n\nYou are\n\nMy oasis\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nCopy-written to Xander Bradeshaw\n\n  \n  \n\n"}