© Yvonne Zientz - Peters
© Dirk Engelage
Barbed wire desert world,
remnants of trees
and rusted poles
are proof of life
that once abundant, green,
of people leading
multicolored lives
but gone, their ghosts
still haunting
at the break of day
but now, just death
and dust and rust
remaining
and the thin winds
whistling songs
of loss and loneliness.