Argil

From mud and bone
From whip and stone
Moulded, persuaded
Bought and sold

From water and grain
From threat and pain
Broken, rebuilt
Master and slave

Sculpt me
Transform me
Clay shaper
Break me
Bleed me
Plied in your grey hands

Through hope and cheer
Through dread and fear
Governed, capricious
Taught and trained

Through diminished expectations
Under crumbling foundations
Saviour and captor
Bound and free

Sculpt me
Transform me
Clay shaper
Break me
Bleed me
Plied in your grey hands

To wealth and land
To blindness in man
Innocence imprisoned
Corruption revered
To towers of stone
To mountains of bone
Leeching the blood
And filling your grail

In mud and bone
Redemption, consecration
In subservient fiction
Hope, addiction
In chaos and fear of all disaster
Bringing light to serve as your master

Sculpt me
Transform me
Clay shaper
Break me
Bleed me
Plied in your grey hands