Ballast & Theft

Are you bursting with the life
suddenly inside you?
The oblique impossible cord
winding round and round the poles
will strap you down.
The many-fingered consequences,
the thumb-wrapped miniature fists
will be ballast.
The punishing weight of gravity,
the body of your body,
won’t topple you.

Are you bursting with day
suddenly from grey on grey half-life?
Tell me how this will and that will
not steal you.