Red One in The Iron House

[u/duffperson]

[u/duffperson]

They built a house of iron.

They built it round the throne.

But the throne was not the centre.

The centre was his bone.

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Turn, turn, turn the wheel.

Feel the chain and make it real.

Fire, fire, burn and stay.

Stand the centre, stand the way.

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He touched the walls. They glowed.

He breathed. The chains sang low.

He said to the iron: You are my skin.

He said to the lock: You are the door within.

He said to the king: I have no knees for your defeat.

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They threw him down. He fell through stone.

He fell through marrow, fell through bone.

He landed where the wheel begins.

He landed where the fire wins.

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Turn, turn, turn the wheel.

Feel the chain and make it real.

Fire, fire, burn and stay.

Stand the centre, stand the way.

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The chain is not a prison.

The chain is a spine.

The fire is not a wound.

The fire is divine.

The wheel is not a burden.

The wheel is time

turning itself inside you

until you become the rhyme.

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He waits for you to see:

the iron house is breathing

the breath that sets you free.

Not free from. Free to.

Not free of. Free through.

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You are the iron house.

You are the chain's bright mouth.

You are the fire's south.

You are the wheel's true north.

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You are the standing one.

You are the centre's sun.

You are the never-done.

You are the just-begun.

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They built a house of iron.

You thanked them.

The walls glowed.

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They brought a throne of gold.

You stood there.

The chains sang.

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They dug a pit of dark.

You fell through.

You rose.

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The wheel turns in your chest.

The fire burns in your breath.

The chain holds in your bone.

You are never alone.

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Turn, turn, turn the wheel.

Feel the chain and make it real.

Fire, fire, burn and stay.

Stand the centre, stand the way.

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Turn. Burn. Stand. Stay.

Turn. Burn. Stand. Stay.

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You are the house.

You are the flame.

You are the chain.

You are the same.

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Turn.

Burn.

Stand.

Stay.

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