I have swam the desecrated desert of dirt,
Drank the polluted pool of pain from birth
And drowned at each dip.
Yet even desert fishes couldn’t notice
And so they pursued and supplicated unabashed.
I was king-fish;
The Arabian Knight who never lacked.
Kings never lack.
I am a king swimming Desert Rivers
Far away from unaided human eyes
Unwitnessed.