IT WOULD SEEM

IT WOULD SEEM

blood drips
flows
drains away

and this elastic stuff
kind of drips too
falls a grain
at a time

but I’m hindsight (taking
stock
taking account)
you
can feel
how fast it flowed

somewhere along the line
that dribble must
have spurted
gushed arterial

and now
you see it, the mouth
of a river
within paddling distance
from the ocean
and what an ocean!

ships heading
for port but
you my friend

only the immeasurable
vastness of the sea

blood driven
time driven

forever
it would seem