The Deadly Desert
Creative Secondary School, Alfred Chan, Poetry: Group 3
Green Plains next to the mountainous desert
Like gold next to iron
A vast barren wasteland of sand
Was a deadly place for man.
Sandy and Windy
Mysterious and silent
The undaunted desert holds its prosperous history
As a fertile crescent along the Silk Road.
A group of travelers in a caravan walked into the desert
Like mice running into a group of cats.
Chatting as the camels walking on the rugged terrain
The camels seemed to have lost their direction in the land of death.
As soon as the travelers found out
Was it already too late?
Heading to Mongolia
But not knowing which way to go.
Stranded in the desert day and night
With ice covering the caravan in the darkness.
Even though the leader wide awake but sleepy at night
He still thought of ways to escape.
Even with the pressure of the other explorers
He still remained calm.
And discussed with them
Their options and their choice.
With only a few days of food left,
The others were more frustrated.
With their shadows becoming longer and longer,
The leader decided to move on.
They headed west
Though not knowing which country they were heading to.
A few hours later
they found a sign written in local script which they didn’t know.
But the arrow pointed to the direction they were heading
