metallurgist

metallurgist
after the first day

i learned

to work in truths as others

        work in metal;

under great

duress, purity won

by heat seething in

reprieve

repeat

even

shod in denial to

tear the living (soil) from

       the earth with each

step toward you my feet

        ache so

     stones in

the path cut

i, just,

have nothing

         left to give,

returned,

               taking