I’m as heavy as a fallen tree branch

Consumed by a river,

Being dragged from the pain

Of frayed limbs outstretched

–

As grey and as brazen

As a seaside cliff  

Unfazed

By the dark tide’s evening call

–

As far away as the veil

Of a mountain storm

Its glimmers of lightening

Forgotten  in slumber  

–

As fragile as the pulse

Of a deer in a clearing,

Under swirls of smoke

And the baying of dogs