Arizona+Heat+by+Michelle+Remmett


 * Arizona Heat**

I only feel at home in the desert, Surrounded by the towering mountains, Enclosing me in the valley of the sun. The city is lit by the perpetual heat , Burning the bright stars Hanging over me in the night sky.

The illuminated night changes to a blinding blue sky, Warm colors of sunrise wash over the desert. Gone were the charred stars, They no longer danced over the mountains, As if they had been burned away by the afternoon heat, And replaced by the scorching Arizona sun.

 I watch the retreating sun, As it gives way to a dimmer, but never dark, sky, But the sun does not leave with the heat. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Gone was the warmly colored desert, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Leaving shadowy mountains, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Barely visible under the blazing stars.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">But they cannot last, the stars, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I stay up to watch them fade, and to watch the rise of the sun, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">A daily routine from high in the mountains. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I find peace under the changing Arizona sky, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">And while lost in the vast, unending desert, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">With the comforting promise of sempiternal heat.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I sleep through the day’s scorching heat, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Only waking when I can walk under the stars, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">And experience the perfect solitude of an empty desert, <span style="color: #92d050; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Unhindered by the relentless rage of the sun. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">There’s nothing more perfect than the Arizona sky, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Seemingly touchable so high up in the mountains.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">When I come down from the mountains, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I can feel the growing intensity of the heat, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">And the distance between myself and the sky. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">These are the final stars, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">And the dawn of the last sun, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Before I have to say goodbye to the desert.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I left the night sky, along with the valley of the sun. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I’ve left my peace on the peak of the mountains, and my happiness in the desert. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">But this won’t be my last chance to see those stars, one day I’ll be living in that Arizona heat.