And I stand on my hill Embattled Distressed as my jeans From crawling across this arid earth Begging for love Longing for acceptance ‘Til it struck me Under this desert sun That I hold the power with my faith To overcome These desert valleys echo my screams Shattering limestone with my intentions I rise again Slowly at first Shaky wings Healing can feel like hell Eventually I ascend above the hurt My view, heavenly Put my past to rest A funeral for who I had to be I have a ministry I was born for My destiny written in the brail of these night stars West Texas under my feet A song in my soul To Overcome
A Farewell Spell for Marfa There’s a certain kind of dusk that only belongs to Marfa—the kind where the light bleeds slow, like a wound refusing to close. Dust rises from the road in amber halos, and the air hums with that strange, invisible electricity that’s neither joy nor sorrow, but something in between. Out here, endings don’t announce themselves; they just drift in on the wind, quiet as tumbleweed shadows. The desert feels hollow tonight. The motel signs buzz faintly, the horizon wears its bruise of burnt pink and violet, and the ghosts of all my former selves wander the edges of town, whispering promises they couldn’t keep. Even the wind sounds different—less like a song, more like a sigh. Marfa was once a kind of spell for me. The wide, merciless sky taught me surrender. The desert dust buried my noise, my need to belong. There were nights when I swore I could feel the old witches stirring under the mesquite—old souls who taught me that solitude is its own kind of prayer...
At the crossroads where the desert splits itself like a wound, I sat. I found a dive bar flickering under neon bones of red and blue , a last-chance lantern for the lost. Inside, country music bled slow from a cracked jukebox, steel guitar crying like a ghost that still remembered my name. Cigarette smoke curled into grey serpents above the bar, hissing secrets only the midnight and the damned could decipher. I drank whiskey-bent lies straight from the bottle— truth tasted too clean for a night like this. The bartender’s eyes were moons of their own, half-lit, half-shadowed, seeing more than he ever dared speak aloud. Outside, the full moon hung heavy, round as an omen, bright as a spell, pulling at the sand, the blood, at every crossroads choice I’d buried under years of wandering. A gust rose from the west— warm, wicked, whispering— and I felt the desert stir, a witch’s hand brushing my spine , reminding me that magic lives in moments like th...
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