Poem: "A Letter to the Southwest"

Is it heavy?

Carrying the weight of blood soaked sand?

…of mountains and stone

built from ravaged, 

broken bones…

…of roads paved over valleys of 

wildflowers and golden crops… 

…of rivers shouting echoes of 

screams, drowning whispers

flooded with oil and greed…

…of rotted trees and rotted teeth

picked and picked apart… 

…of wolves howling for less each 

crescent moon, crows and buzzards

starved as they circle barren lands… 

…is it heavy?

Carrying the weight of man?