Your broken bone
like the shattered stone,
This castle is cracked and cannot do
anymore, to provide or act as roof,
You cannot live here anymore
so you do not live here anymore,
You inhabit
like the benign growth which nestles
uninvited in the brain.

Ignore this collapsing home,
Ignore your body, overgrown
By moss and chewed by birds who come
discussing matters of life over their meal,
The meat melts in the mouth, they remark -
Do you suppose it is fresh, they remark -
But they grow tired of the supple carrion,
They rise beyond the broken shelter,
Suddenly the cloying sky is filled with life!
They rip off shreds to take home to offspring
and throw aside the sullied bone
to lay forever beside the cracking stone.