Ca Ching 2

You and I watched

 Tiger Bay set into the sun

Let it sink into the sea.

Have I always been here

On this evening shore 

Holding farewell hands

with you

I thought but said

God is long time dead in me 

I am not of the chosen few,

I am my own weakness

My own dim light 

my own shadow blocks my view

Looking down 

You sighed, 

All things must fall 

The bottom must drop out

The whole cannot be 

you thought but said

Ahh my dear 

My tea’s gone cold.

Reality is too short to kiss I thought

But said instead

Do you believe there is 

anything that can truly set you free?

You answered, obviously 

I live in hope and you?

I looked inside myself 

and left

sitting hopefully too.

Ka Ching!

You and I watched 

Sitting by Tiger Bay

The sunset Christ taken down  

dragging sanctity across the city sky like

Alabaster skin in Vermillion slaughter 

Enfolded, infolded 

unfolded 

Event Horizon Golgotha 

Of the

Ever rolling now.

And if

It is not him but then 

and if it is not how 

but who and when

Then have I always been here

By this evening shore 

with you…

And if God is long time dead in me because 

I am not of the chosen few,

Then I am my own weakness

My own dim light 

my own shadow blocks my view

All things must fall 

The bottom must drop out

The whole cannot be free

The tea has gone cold

This reality is short to kiss

Then you may say

How do you know Anything?

Anything at all

I answer obviously 

I look inside myself and see