If I brought you a cloak
embroidered with stars
a staff & a crown & a steed
would you mount it?
If I laid out a carpet
from my veins of bright red
if I bled & I bled
would you walk it?
If I brought you a bird
with a song yet unheard
if it came in a cage
would you free it?
If I wove silk from corn
if i turned wheat to gold
would you wrap yourself up?
Would you count it?
If I brought you a colt
with a horn in his head
would you hold out your hand?
Would you feed it?
If I cast down my hair
with its stiff strands of grey
if I unwound the braid
Would you climb it?
If I brought you my head
on a carved wooded plate
if I died, if I'm dead
would you grieve it?
If I bring you an apple
from my orchard of hearts --
it is ripe, it is red --
will you eat it?
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