Sold for scrap,

The burden of a memory

Sails away in fragments

Down a steel grey river

Onto wharves unknown

–

Set adrift before its wealth

Can shine through at first light

Before I’m taken along

On its winding voyage

–

Farewell at last

To that barge of old bones

Fated to be remade

In the image of a stranger

–

To be swept away in time

On another rogue tide

Toward annihilation

And the fires of rebirth