Thaw Me
Thaw me from memory:
Suddenly the hard shell crumbles
The raw yolk leaks from my fingers in disgust
Expired years and anger tumbles -
This hardening shell in a deferment of memory
An eggless sentence comes to bird
Anger haggles for the meaning word
Melts silently.
It was a good fence
To watch across ... distance shrivelled so
By time ... friendships in a population grow
Strange curiosities about human loneliness:
Frozen silences.
I watched you from without ...
Sometimes distance is a man's defence
You built brick by brick
Your wall mortared with lies
Using people as layers of convenience
The words of others twisted ... until they despised
Leave you to your convent of faults
To bear the yoke of hypocrisy
Where ragged rituals vaults
The logic of worship ... begging praise.
Even stones can melt without fire
To weep in acid rain.
Your corrupted words, your bitterness
Did not destroy the envy of your eyes
Now your heap of withered happiness
Shiver of the base of crumbling walls ...
An egg will roll at winds' whim
And raw the ground where the yolk runs.
They say
Anger is wheat caught between the teeth -
Leave it nagging there and be sore
Extract it, and go eat more
I say anger is the memory of what I deplore
You pulling me down
To rise on the rip tides of my frown
But I by just walking away
Left you waiting in your decay.
A heart can thaw
If it lingers in the fire of the sun.
Copyright © David Smalling | Year Posted 2009
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