Earth - We Are Temporary

Clawed and teeming wildlife

My body floating in a marshland

Swimming, circling round my feet

Water-bugs and cranes are nestling

Feel the anaerobic cells

Floating, flexing in the reeds

Smell the leaves and burning hair

Grind red earth into my heart

You were my first pioneer

Called me back to roof our home with skin

Building ditches and canals

Leaving nothing but the summer wind

A vision blind before the veil

Copper, golden eyes and Bordeaux lips

Stealing back my heart and then

Eating what is left of yours

Fingers grasping for the tin

Faceless and anonymous

The grappling hook is anchored deep

Sticking to my pulpy, pulsing muscle

I stagger through the blood red sands

Barely breathing lunges burn up with air

Pressing ribs calibrate

The friction and the fusion

Our love springs deep and dark

Witness to the sticks and twigs and dust