Strong words for a finger,
deaf as the moon and plumb
broken only by the silence of a water prick
shot through the casket of lies,
they fly.
Weak words for a mouth,
coiled ‘round a cob of time
aiming at success in tune
to the stylus of bones and brick,
housed in the mantle passed the sea
of depths greater than the two mirrors.
Strong thought for the eyeball,
as the lie grows second to the “why”
and a truth laughs,
caught in-between
birth and death.