Delver

A First Sketch

Fiercest shame divides
“not yet me” from “never me”
awful bound to cross

Here come the delver
in search of scraps that might
prove keys to no me

Delver is built slight
small but stronger than it seems,
wiry honesty

Delver neither knows
nor cares how delving was born
creative bastard

Delver delves delver 
sweetly eluding all self
slip of mystery

Delver awkwardly
sings, as if bird in flight
forgot its wing beat

Delver delivers
what was all unsuspected
free of known beliefs

Delver’s beyond me,
yet I’ve caught rare glimpses
of delving in me