Poetry ~ Untamed ~ Submission
Submission
Poetry - Untamed
Written by Caribou Slim
Just as a sapless tree will split and decay, so an inflexible force will meet defeat. The hard and mighty lie beneath the ground, while the tender and weak dance on the breeze above.
  
Tuesday, 21 August 2001 22:25
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I have wandered the corridors of my death
Marveled at the sculptures cast
in memory
Golden and ebony
Painted my blood along the walls
calmly
Carved my name across the floor with my fingernails
Heard my last breath echoing through the empty halls
paused
Smiled, listening to its quiet melody

I could remain there forever
voiceless
Watching you slip coi-like through the pool
of a garden mind
Swirling through sight like night through dream
Collecting screams
Belly laughs, scars
Orgasm
Kisses, bruises
Stones cast shoreward by the surf

I have always loved you
Because you were not gentle
When you tore my voice free
Lifting me bloody and squawling to the sun
to the vultures
to the hungry air
Drawing life from my lips like a lullaby
Drawing tears from my silent eyes
Their salt a sweet gift to a newborn tongue
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