Amergin's Final Charm
(with no apologies whatsoever to the shade of Robert Graves)

I am the pill:          used as poison,
I am the cure:          mutated to sickness,
I am the tool:          that becomes a weapon,
I am the road:          cut through a forest,
I am the river:          diverted & dammed,
I am the panacea:          for the new placebo,
Paragon of Animals:          who but I
can tilt the whole of the world on its head?

I am the ocean:          unable to breathe,
I am the child:          who lives in tomorrow,
I am the earth:          rapaciously squandered,
I am the stranger:          shot at the border,
I am the city:          watching the horizon,
I am the rifle:          trained on the starving,
embryo god:          who but I
am responsible for the slighest in everything?

I am the freeman:          rotting in prison,
I am the confession:          invented by torture,
I am the drunk:          content at the wheel,
I am the god:          created by man,
I am the lies:          presented as truth,
I am the wound:          in the flank of the world,
I am what I am:          who but I
can unleash Hell for six minutes on Earth?

© 2000 Trout &
Andrew Paul Wood