Metal---I Am Metal
"METAL....I AM METAL"
You know me...You know me well!
I am in every facet and usage of your life!
You open me up for sustenance and use me to feed yourself, by hand, unless everything you eat is finger food!
You are surrounded by me whenever you drive, take the bus, the train, the plane or strap on roller skates...use a bike or ride a motorcycle! I AM THERE!! I can be bent and dented but I CANNOT be broken! At least not by human hands!
You put me into your door locks by having me inserted into a different version of myself every time you enter and every time you leave!
I am used medically, scientifically, industriously and religiously! You cannot escape me nor my presence! I am steel, I am iron, I am brass, I am bronze, I am tin, I am silver, I am tungsten...I am sheet metal, wrought iron, chain linked!
You are more than likely wearing me right now! Third finger left hand, or other fingers, around the neck, the wrist, in the ears and the mouth! I am used internally in the body and I also help humans to walk!
I AM....I AM....I AM....I AM EVERYWHERE!!!!
YOU CANNOT ESCAPE MY VERY PRESENCE!!!!
I am in your computers, your IPhones, your IPads, your eyeglasses! I am an I Beam! I am the skeletal frame of the tallest buildings on the planet! I am an exo-skeletal frame!
I have been to the moon, I am on Mars as I speak, and I will go where no man has ever gone before!
I have been involved in every war since the beginning of your time! I was bladed weaponry, I have been bullets, I have been tanks and I have been barbed wire! I have been chicken wire, telephone wire, cables and bridge spans! I am sea armament, air armament. I enclose nuclear armament and I have been dropped from more aircraft than you could ever imagine! I was "Fat Man", I was "Little Boy"! I have been involved in every human demise that I could be used in!
I have been involved in murders, assassinations! I am usually present for robberies and even self defense!
I can be liquefied and shaped and formed into ANYTHING!...ANYTHING AT ALL! I dig, I cut, I slice, I dice! I am sharp, I am blunt, I am pointed, I am dull! I am thick, I am thin, I am heavy, I am light!!! I can reflect light!!!
I AM....I AM....I AM....EVERYWHERE!!!!
YOU CANNOT ESCAPE MY PRESENCE!!!!
I hold water! I can create condensation and produce water! I can corrode from water! I can last as long as time itself! In fact I help time to tell time ALL the time! I will be here until the end of time!
There is nothing like me!
I will exist forever!!
You will Never be rid of me!...
NEVER!!!
I TOO AM HERE FOR ALL ETERNITY!!!
I AM WHAT I AM!!!
"METAL....I AM METAL!!!"
Copyright © Walter T. Ashe | Year Posted 2016
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