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Starlight in your eyes

starlight is the prize

Your beauty blooms

only in the dark

Starlight in your eyes

starlight is the price

When will I be allowed

into your heart

Your body sways

a caravan in the night

circles within circles

the resonance of zills

piercing the dark

the unknown blackness

Darling only the darkness

gives relief

from the blinding sun       

enduring grief.

Caravans riding through endless dunes

thirsting for the touch of water on the lips

all day long I long for you

I cannot reach the end of you

— your starlight, your eyes—

the ever-changing price,

the gold scattering from your feet

sand, shining like wheat

your footprints everywhere in the sand

as you dance away across the land

I call to you from the depths of all I hunger for

like the desert has called for centuries

Come to me come to me