The very first poem I've ever written entirely for me. Its based off of my grandpas workshop, where we do a whole lot of welding. The prompt was a poem titled 'Steps to Freedom', and we were to create our own poem about steps to blank. Enjoy!
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Steps to Melting Metal
A topless table
A frame of what it is thought it should be
Modified to an unthought purpose
Lined with hardened drops of liquid metal
Polkadots of projects passed
Blaring music
Deafening notes
Secret songs
Small flecks lost in the sea of popularity
But big stitches holding me together
Pulling in my wandering mind
Battle armor
The last line of defense for fragile skin
Fabric gauntlets protecting hands, delicate and worn alike
A visor made of tinted glass protecting vulnerable eyes from its place on half a helmet
Armour used by many, passed on so others may fight
Learned finesse
Ready trigger fingers on careful steady hands
Mindful flicks of a wrist, calculated movements
Locked elbows, tense shoulders
Unblinking eyes, seeing, calculating, focused
All parts of me, the machine using the metal melting machine
White hot flames
Enough to burn eyes as punishment for looking at them with a naked gaze
Enough to melt and burn. Metal, plastic, skin, me
A creators tool for melting metal
Liquid copper
Steel as hard as putty
Aluminum malleable as tin foil
Melded together in a permanent fuse
Forced to bond into something new
Metal repurposed into whatever I instruct it to be
All in a dingy dusty shop
An office of sorts for wise experienced men
Teaching me, a keen and curious girl
The steps to melting metal
YOU ARE READING
Random Writing Dump
PoetryI have a bunch of random poems, drabbles, short stories, ect that cant really stand completely on their own, so I'm going to compile them all here. Enjoy!
