You Divers - Will Stratton

I woke, and I did not know who had spoken

The sun spilled all over my floor

The shades sighed in and out with the wind

I rose right from the fire that had done me in

Don’t make false steps, you divers

I don’t know where you’d hide them

Broken bones and high breakers

Empty rooms with no takers

I hope that I am alive, I am alive

To see the afterlight of spring

When the, the coats of arms do not rust

And the, the amber women don’t stop singing

You are anathema

To the curses I know

You are not the answer

You are just a way to go