"Leprosy's Lament"

How difficult to have a heart of stone
and a mind of water.
What do you do when the screams won't subside?
The shouts of fervor and pain that pull eternity.
You ride with the wild eyes of the chimera,
the needle corroded with tears and your own blood.

When beauty shields itself with skin
and pulls ones heart to aching valleys and mountanous peaks,
then the dancing begins.
The twirling of our chosen masks pushes us to the waters edge,
but what of us with fools feet,
and cancerous minds?

It's too hard to feel joy when you're being pulled through the desert.

--Andrew Hussey