Base Metal

(A meat mine)

If you could just see me now

Hands pitted blood red

One clasped to my chest

The other covering my wound...

Base metal...

(Like some bag of skin)

I felt for one moment that I could reach out to you

That the sea in its wisdom

Its green blue wisdom

Could for one impulsive moment cease its spring tide

(You're wasting my time)

Send my aching limbs towards your totem smile...

And that my bleeding might stop...

And that my wounds could heal

(Nobody has the decency to say anything)

And that my arm could weld itself to yours

(We dream together)

People pour past me a wilting figure

Metallic

Wooden

Constrained...

(Caged

Masked

Hatred)

I felt as if I could see leaves

I could see summer leaves

That autumn's wind had cast to the ground

(Give it up...)

I felt as if I could sculpt time

But in one moment

This sweet clay turned to blood...

Sea blood

Un-refined...

(We sit in silence)

I had hoped to sculpt a memory of you

Sea memories

Of intense colours contained within a million sea stones...

(Spoon fed or watershed...)

(Give it up...

And kill)

(Jahyawhan)