You and I watched
Tiger Bay fall into the sun
Let it sink beyond the sea
Where the salmon rivers run.
On the granite quay we stood
Side on side.
“Have I always been here
On this evening edge
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,
having heard it all before
“All things must fall
The bottom must drop out
The whole cannot hold!”
you thought but said
“Ahh my dear
My tea’s gone cold.”
And poured a libation
Into the dock
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 the lie to bleed in ‘yes’
Right there on the stones
I left empty headed
My ship sailed
No salient point
No seal kissed
The bay
Transubstantiated
