Colin Mitchell Williams Poet Free verse

Building Materials

Building Materials


It takes so long to understand
How the fractures of the past
Reach the home of the future
With such a stealthy hand

All the foundations
That you braced and propped
All the restorations
Made in cement and bricks
The plasterwork
Which seemed so seamless
Begins to show the cracks
While the girders and supports
Begin to resemble
A prison
Your own hands have wrought

Time you felt would give you time
Built that time, but it has slipped away
Behind the stalwart barriers
You designed to keep the time
At bay

You didn’t think to hide yourself away
But nobody knows you now
Anyway
No one can see you
Through the cage

And from the panoramic view of your eyes
You toss your crumpled warnings
To anyone who is searching for suggestions
On building materials

“Only fools turn their back on their heart”
“Only fools turn their back on love”
“Only fools paper over the agony
 and believe in someone else”

“Only fools choose something other than love
“for building materials”

“Love’s a split between
 yourself and someone else
“Martyrdom is not an expression
  of a truly loving heart”
“It’s a sacrifice unasked for 
  from the loves in your life”

“It’s a solitary sacrifice”

This message I throw from my high walled
Window
High from the tower 
I built my own
Not by choice these props and girders
These adobe bricks of sand and straw

I never knew
What these bricks
Were for

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