User:DavidConrad/Red Sand Desert

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I wrote a poem just the other day. Some web site was offering a prize, and you had to write a poem to enter. It's most likely a scam, but I thought, "Why not?" They were careful to state that, although by entering you were giving permission for them to exhibit your poem, you retained rights to it. I'm not likely to win any prize, but now I have this poem and I didn't know what to do with it. So I put it here.

Red Sand Desert

The river rolls towards the sea
And the sun beats down on the trucks
And humvees; hot enough to make the
Dusty metal painful to the touch.
The Greeks compared the river to a tiger--
Ferocious, ever-changing, it was unnavigable,
Like a street in an Arabian village,
Filled with bustling throngs of people
And cars, any one of which could be--
A loud report shatters the silence,
An explosion, shouting, running feet,
A burst of automatic weapons fire;
Bodies lie motionless on the ground
Near a hulk that was once a humvee;
The setting sun's rays fade to amber
As the desert sands turn red