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