The Desert

What makes the desert beautiful?

The reason it's hated, the reason it's feared: heat and sand and hateful winds carrying blindness and death.

You look at the land and claim it's hostility and condemn it's savagery.

You try to change its soul and make it your own, but the desert belongs to the desert.

In its barren sands life still persists, in forms both great and small.

Grand cacti and sparse trees offer water and shade to the small rodents who borrow for bugs, who get picked up and carried away by birds of prey. All the while the sun beats down until the coyote howls.

Vicious it may be, grating against more delicate senses, but the desert is the desert, and that makes it beautiful.