7.9.16

Weekend words for you.

7-7-16

When the living speak

they usually begin at the beginning;

of a start in fire and water,

one that would char the bones

and set them in the mud,

and that is where the living begin

when the speak about the way things are.

From the water things grow,

and in the fire they are ruined

until we are enough

that we stop feeling the flames

as pain,

and the growth as our charge.

Our will is large and diffuse,

and longer tied to the price of grain.

So now when the fire is upon us

the living reach back into a mind

that is not a mind, and bare their teeth.

The dead can do no such thing.