Amergin's
Final Charm
(with no apologies whatsoever to
the shade of Robert Graves)
I
am the pill: used
as poison,
I am the cure: mutated
to sickness,
I am the tool: that
becomes a weapon,
I am the road: cut
through a forest,
I am the river: diverted
& dammed,
I am the panacea: for
the new placebo,
Paragon of Animals: who
but I
can tilt the whole of the world on its head?
I
am the ocean: unable
to breathe,
I am the child: who
lives in tomorrow,
I am the earth: rapaciously
squandered,
I am the stranger: shot
at the border,
I am the city: watching
the horizon,
I am the rifle: trained
on the starving,
embryo god: who
but I
am responsible for the slighest in everything?
I
am the freeman: rotting
in prison,
I am the confession: invented
by torture,
I am the drunk: content
at the wheel,
I am the god: created
by man,
I am the lies: presented
as truth,
I am the wound: in
the flank of the world,
I am what I am: who
but I
can unleash Hell for six minutes on Earth?
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2000 Trout &
Andrew Paul Wood
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