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Idea of iron am I
A song of steel
A long tongue telling life
And death
Wa worked me for Man
Indigo-san
Ogami bore my blade-twin:
Brother
Forged am I of far-flung metal
Tempered in tears
Heart-blows hammered me: loss
And love
Solitude shaped me
And wounded wood
Annealed in earth's embrace,
Unseen
Concealment kept me
Asleep on stone
Till Blue beheld me, heard
My song
Ah! Hands' brief blessing
One airy arc
He cannot claim me: hence
He goes
Drawn forth by Daughter
Changeling child
Following fast the path
He takes
No door defeats me --
A gate-gift I
Not my master this man:
No strength
Now new hands hold me
Of Blue beloved
Again on wood I wait
Unseen
Red vines in water
Grow from my edge
And I drink sacred blood
Alone
Service served, I sink
Steel concealed
This death brings life to those
I love
Fire-formed am I
White-wave-marked
Here silence holds my song
I sleep.
O-Shironami