White Elephant Coat - School of Seven Bells

See the branches bend like

Silk ribbons without breaking

The wind crashes into

Walls without shattering

Into a million strands

I ask you to listen

A sunless winter light

Throws its coat down to say

Keep your feet faultless before

The martyred ground defaced

And torn by no fault of its own

Bloodless lithe absolution

I give you so take from me

This white elephant coat