A wretched child with half-formed heart
Obliviously
Broken, bleeding, cast into the world
I'm lost and hollow
My cold eyes look up to see
The grey night, the dead sea, the burnt sky around me
The stars that fell through the towers of ash
I live in regret
I want to put to rest
Everything I see
I'll always be here
Whatever happens
I'll take you home with me
Into that neverending night
I can't sleep
I can't dream
I can't breathe in the air here
I can't cry though my heart aches
I scream through the pain
A pallid haze churns in the morning
As stumbling and blinded I awake
To a flickering light
A gasoline flame
A white phosphorous rain
Lying dead in the dirt
A sanctified grave
Another curse laid on your name
I want to put an end
To everything I see
Turn the time back
Start life over
Write your elegy
Take you to that neverending night
I'm living less for spite than love
Can the same be said of your kind?
Get the f*ck out, motherf*cker
I see with my own eyes
Imperialist, colonizer
I'll be your demise
I live on
Past you and your dying war
I will see my home and take you on
And I will never die
And I will never die
In the year of our lord
2023
A requiem for the old world
Another eulogy