Once Upon a Boatride
salty decks :
burned my feet
and stripped its flesh
f l a s h b a c k s . !
chattel in a cargo hold
eyes
that never seen
the coming
never knowing
its destination
nor it’s story
hearts beat between beats
out of sync
s t a c c a t o e d
offbeat . . .
If but only by a fraction in time
stopped . . !
between the blow
of brine soaked leather
dried and hardened
in the midday sun
restarted . .
as less than . .
you know my song:
I’m dead
yet never died
bare feet
on a ledge somewhere
trying to find balance
a ridge a bridge afar
can’t turn back
must break the spell
cast my own incantations
must escape the mist before it crumbles into dust
covert truth disguised
favour never embraced me
in the cradle
nor the womb
my skin my only solace
my only comfort and refuge
my only respite
masturbation !
of righteousness
ejaculated
into
purposed purpose
false piety
pious evil
blessed by
no lesser than
the Gods themselves
I’m the child
never born
yet lived
to tell It’s story I’m the womb the seed
the deed
at my own conception the hands
that caught my birth
every worth
every handful of dirt
I was made from
or buried with
t a k e n a s p r i z e
~ S O L D ~
every dirty deed
d e n i e d . .
or made so
they are the church
that sinned against me
called me
s l a v e
their mandate . . . ! is not my faith nor fate they said I was made of
God's Shit . . ! In the end
I’m where
it all began
I L i v e . .
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