Loco Motive

be my engineer
heat me to
boiling

open my mouth
stoke my fire
shoveling

words in
but save
one

chunk of
coal that
was

heated
but now
has cooled

and as is time
for all time
this will be

ours as coal 
becomes a
diamond
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019

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