One Single Impression: Meld

Meld:
To melt and weld
As in, perhaps,
Putting the silver coating on
This cheap necklace I wear almost every day;

(It is a turtle emerging from a shell,
Crawling to the sea of my throat.)

My chemistry
Has worn away the thin layer of silver
Fused to this base metal
To create the illusion

Of something sterling.

This lackluster turtle reminds
Me life itself began

Once

Began in the face
Of wildly ridiculous odds
Began as a turtle by being there

(So the stories go)

When a divine innocent fell
(Was pushed in anger, actually)
Through a hole in the heavens

To an earth that lifts you up
Because it can

Because it can transform
Danger and anger into--
(Pretty dreams, I would like to say)
And it will

Because
(and we may never understand this)
That is what it is; it must.

Scratch beneath the surface;

Find that the turtle is the turtle.

Begin.

One Single Impression