Stares

Uninhabited stares,
Not disguised in the least.
Thinly laced sneering,
Amusement and perverseness.
So many pairs of eyes.
Serving only to inspire fear,
That basic human emotion,
Which one feels in unknown territory,
Before strangers.

That tremendous amounts of
Black and white,
Blurred only in the terminal
Where the familiar undress
And the strangers dress.
Only in the desert
Filled with water and plants.
An oasis, temporarily,
Currently.

Lacking in Western manners
Where it is male before female
Where the animals are worth more
More than the females put on display
Before strangers in a strange territory
In a familiar setting
Before the uninhibited stares
Specifically from their own countrymen.

Inspiring anxiety
In those gorgeous eyes,
Covered up except for.
Emphasis there, and only there.
And all you can see is
Fear.