Men of Hay; What is "me?"A Poem by Jose Camacho
In the hands of the men of hay;
From their hands, a diamond fell. When coal became a fortune; My ever green soon began to grow. At dawn, from where a soldier looks, He sees-- Saw what was a bow. If you ask a soldier what he saw, He saw-- "Hands of the men of hay I see." Follow where I've stepped in snow, Melting-- The winter melts me. Men of hay soon ask me to taste. Taste this-- Bitter taste was bloody. Dust is the ash of earth, And the men of hay are my children. What will they become? I am-- But who can be me? All the hay is men of golden grass, The morning seems to-- I've gone mad. The evergreen is apples on my tongue, Like the allergy of a peanut to your mouth. One, but followed not by two, The third is now forgotten. In this dream we salute who-- Can that "who" be me and grass? On a mountain of voices of the passing, Souls of earth are made with hay. Let me soon become the coal-- Transform. What is me? The Diamond.
© 2013 Jose CamachoAuthor's Note
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