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 it's wisdom,
it's green blue wisdom
could for one impulsive moment cease it's spring tide

you're wasting my time

send my aching limbs towards your totem smile..

and that my bleeding might