Dear Air,

You choke me while I'm happy. You cut me while I'm smiling. You lash me while I'm laughing. And worst, you kill me while I'm praying.

You took everything I had away from me. Crushing all of it to the cold, stone ground.

You blew in the sand. The rough, dry, hot sand. The sand that coated the houses, the cars, the animals, the people. Sand was everywhere. In my eyes and out my ears.

You blew that sand that took everything from me.

~ Populace

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