Monday, July 29, 2019

Unprepared, by Amory McKeever



Lying under all this skin
Phosphorus and oxygen
Lungs that ache to breathe again
Escape from this hell within

Carbon caged magnesium
Calcium structures deep beneath
This tired wrinkled sun-dried sheath
Would break themselves for Elysium

Dig me up from this earth
This fallow spoiled useless dirt
If only I had been worthy
We could have made it work

We could have made this whole thing work

Cease to beat that central muscle
That pumps the pain with such hustle
To every appendage I would sever
Just to keep us together

Endless elements of cobalt blue
A life left barren without you
Stokes the furnace that melts the ore
And crafts the shells for this war

Dig me up from this earth
This fallow spoiled useless dirt
If only I had been worthy
We could have made it work

We could have made this whole thing work

It turns out I was unprepared
For your methods that went undeclared
You came in like a Trojan horse
And destroyed me without remorse

Dig me up from this earth
This fallow spoiled useless dirt
If only I had been worthy
We could have made it work

We could have made this whole thing work



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