Electrified (a poem) A lonely ocotillo stands proud among the dunes, fuchsia flowers pointed skywards at the black clouds crowding out a bruised sunset. The clouds unleash a bolt of lightning upon a hill of sand, carrying within its jagged spear the words: Electrified / Black clouds above / The arid desert / Shoot tendrils down / To massage the sand / Into trees of glass./ They bring down / With them / A precious / Gift which / Falls to earth / Turns the dust / To mud, fills / The gullies / And floods / The valleys, / Brings greenth / To the parched / Creosote and / Ocotillo. / And you / Bring / Me to / Life / . Electrified Black clouds above The arid desert Shoot tendrils down To massage the sand Into trees of glass. They bring down With them A precious Gift which Falls to Earth Turns the dust To mud, fills The gullies And floods The valleys, and Brings greenth To the parched Creosote and Ocotillo. And you Bring Me to Life .