Feed to me a current so that I may have an adversary
It’ll help carry the bones home when our wars are done
Remembering how we’d dislodged our lives
Torn them clean from the earth
Stolen to ***** cairns too tall to climb
Even for nimble us
Allow me then to stack my bricks up against yours
Measure if you must
They can topple continuously
Mine were bound to from birth
Build with them a wall against which I can press
In my very own war
Crumble the pieces into a fine powder
To be blown out of hand and spun
into a wind-turned eye
Call it salt and litter our croplands with it
It is standard procedure
That nothing lives long enough to learn how to mock itself
Watch it slip from your hands
Watch the line slip from mine
No chance of less slack on my own volition
Better a contained current in some watery recess
Than a fought one upended in thundering torrents
Better to quell the urge to hurl oneself toward it
Than to hold taut a line tied to a drowning stone
Mar 9, 2017
Mar 9, 2017 at 12:59 AM UTC
Feed to me a current so that I may have an adversary
It’ll help carry the bones home when our wars are done
Remembering how we’d dislodged our lives
Torn them clean from the earth
Stolen to ***** cairns too tall to climb
Even for nimble us
Allow me then to stack my bricks up against yours
Measure if you must
They can topple continuously
Mine were bound to from birth
Build with them a wall against which I can press
In my very own war
Crumble the pieces into a fine powder
To be blown out of hand and spun
into a wind-turned eye
Call it salt and litter our croplands with it
It is standard procedure
That nothing lives long enough to learn how to mock itself
Watch it slip from your hands
Watch the line slip from mine
No chance of less slack on my own volition
Better a contained current in some watery recess
Than a fought one upended in thundering torrents
Better to quell the urge to hurl oneself toward it
Than to hold taut a line tied to a drowning stone
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