May 27

Salar de Uyuni by Basiah Bryant

As the Moon shows her cheeks

And the Sun hides his face

The ground comes alive

Into mellow bouncing solace

As the skies paint the ground

And the whole world shown upside down We fall and lay

To admire the setting of rain’s forte.

The colors bounce

The lights dance

The floor billows

And the clouds speak

The ground stretches

The surface disappears

And the clouds say

“Come this way”

We chase the clouds because we ca

We run across air because land is nowhere We run for oblivion because destinations are gone We touch the sky because the sky’s on our knees

However, we realize

As the Sun sinks away

And the clouds change their souls

And break away from our pulse

That we never were connected

And the clouds were not below

And the horizon was not infinite

And the land nor in neverland

The ground is life, a lie if you may

It gives false comfort in times of desperation. It steals reality and morphs and twists

And turns the land of Salar into mist

However, as the moon rises above and below And smiles with her bright blemished cheeks She reminds of us

the other side

Which we know is the side

the sky repeats

Infinitely.

The yin and yang of life

The reflection of sides to sides

The Serenity Sun

The Monument Moon

When opposites meet, they intertwine into one. As seen and said

On Uyunis level home

After looking above and below

And seeing both are the same.

We know now, life is neither true nor false. She is a mystery and a harmony

A distortion but a beauty

A confusion but a safespace

A safespace of her comfort

A Salar de Uyuni…


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Posted May 27, 2025 by valerie.egger in category poetry

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