A/N: The last part of my triple update!
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IN THE DESERT
One day a man into a desertwalked
Dazed by hunger and the heat.
All he needed was a place wherein to sleep
And place wherein to eat.
But where in a desert?
As far as his eyes could see
It's an expanse of void in which to die.
Instead of a briny sea of sapphire
A veil of sand would meet the sky.
There, in a hopeless desert.
But in an instant beyond belief
He saw something off the west;
An oasis! Or whate'er it may be--
A place of food and rest!
Here, in a grim desert!
His will returned as he ran
The previous woe now did not he mind.
The burning sirocco now a tepid breeze
Now that an oasis he did find
Amidst a boiling desert.
But as he went nearer
As he, starving, drooled,
It was then he sadly realized
By a mirage he has been fooled.
Nothing but nothing in a desert.
He laughed at himself
Pitying his decrepit heart;
What he at first thought of as salvation
Was nature's trickery from the start.
That mirage... in a dreary desert.