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

Unrefined

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