My limbs are dead
They suck honey from the bees
And jump into the moving pain like fever
My limbs ache to death
Yet then here’s this small glass
From which a sound emits like
Distrust.
I’ve been through it
Heaving as a dead man’s chest ‘d —-
There’s no way back;
Words vomit as though
They are Blood, Mud and Earth.
Rain drenches you to destitution.
And then there’s sleep — long,
Alcoholic, numb like a dream.
I walk through.
I’ll walk through.
And the muddy silence ‘ll be all over.