Stay with me

Stay with me

Through it all

The heavy rain

Sharp as a knife

Dog days with a dark edge

Scraping the walls

Peeling away

Pictures of the dead

Stapled to the flesh

Already rotting

As much as the meat

On the bone

Left out in the sun

The flies

Have a field day

A chaotic swarm

Of mindlessness

Tearing at stone

Stripping away

At the story

Changing the meaning

With the swing of a hammer

Bring it down

Hard on the anvil

Cold iron, cast

As the weight of history

Hammered out

Forged anew

With every heartbreak

The beating of it

A miracle

Of belief over engineering.