Metal Tube Life

 

Metal tube existence---

Collapsed nucleus on strands of life.

Magnetic polarity reflection

Of eyes seeing other life.

 

Embrace the wall---

Don't let it fall---

It deflects the scream

Raging inside.

 

The mind imprisons

All

 

The heart---

The only escape

Black-sooted feelings

Close the doors.

 

That mind never woke

To search the dream

 

Those eyes never moved

To touch the music

 

That mouth never tasted

More than food

 

Those hands never felt

Sinew and power

Marrow and breath

 

Those feet never stepped

Upon its own dust

 

That soul never looked

Outside the eyes that see in

 

Rivets and screws

Wires and blood

Forever walking into

The way it came

 

Pulling back

Wrenching dead screams

That strike fires

Inside the brain

 

A sweat of ice

Scalds the skin

And stokes the fire,

Lifeless surface.

 

Human life stirs

Within the clutch

Of strangling breath

 

Push it aside----

It must not speak---

It must not know it lives.

 

Just see the man.

He'll tell the truths

That never live

 

He holds the mirror

Of painted reflections

 

He drops the life

Down the dark abyss

Through hollow tubes

 

Through metal veins

Which flows his life.

 

 

B. Benjamin

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