A desert,
hidden oasis gleaming,
expanse of sand surrounds.

Entombed with kings,
and silken elephants,
hieroglyphics scrawl with purpose,
lost to ancient dust,
snakes looped head to tail inside,
asleep.

Jade or dragon scales,
in a place no eyes have seen.
Ashes cold in smolder
a resurrected blaze
put out beneath war hooves.

Wheels turn as serpents writhe through wholes,
path of time converges
and boils.
Kings disintegrate
to infants' cries,
as chained to the hourglass,
polarity ebbs
and flows,
attraction density,
singing our way home.