Pitiful Infinity

The sand falls way to dust
The ocean dragged out to sea
Abandoning the parched land
The orphaned boats.
Eternity awaits on the other side
But eternity is a chimera
The vision promised by the water's edge
Moving further away with every step.
A lost romance
As the sky grows heavy
Pregnant with rain
That hails a punishing tattoo
But fails to fill the basin
The sand remains parched
And crumbles to dust
Under feet that had sought to walk a million miles
To find the end of the Earth
Only to find the end of eternity
In a hole.