The space our ego takes

And the world

Will silently fall asleep

Tonight. 

Dream of

The lullabies

That sang to us.

Those that told

How their resistance 

Was a terror 

To our world.

Their hopes,

Once a dance,

Now a danger to

Be destroyed.

We shall sleep in silence,

And we shall think us better for it.

I want you to know I remember. 

I want you to know. 

That you accepted all this violence,

But not when they threw back

A stone.

Write it down

I cannot unbreak broken promises

But I can yield a pen.

That is the one thing I know I can.

So I will fill up all the pages.

I can not wield their weapons

But I can dictate history.

I can write down every story

They want us to erase.

Don't do nothing 

Because you think

You can't do anything. 

There is a cost to silence

And you will pay everything.

You cannot unbreak broken promises

But you can bear witness

To all of the atrocities 

They say they carry out in our name.

There is power in remembering.

There is history in the making

If you are unwilling to forget.

Soulless

 

How heavy would your heart feel,

How heavy would be your tread?

If your whole life is made of fleeing 

Without ever touching your own land?

How heavy would your tears fall,

How close would death feel?

If you are never allowed a home,

Always disappearing under your feet.

How quickly will your anger rise,

How deep will the roots grow?

When every time you use your voice

Their judgment brings it low?

How sad will your days feel,

When gray is all you see?

And you have nothing to remember by

The faces of your family.

How quick our humanity broke

While looking at human lives.

How quick we are to take our heart

And hand to twist the knife.

A child's eyes shouldn't look like this

I tattoo your eyes 

Onto my mind

So I will never forget. 

That I once saw

You alive

And they want to

See you dead.

Carrying memories

 

The only thing

That should have fitted

In a small plastic bag is you

Telling us it’s complicated,

That the oppressors are 

Always right.

Not the memory of someone’s life.

Why is your opinion bigger somehow?

Silence

If you want my silence,

I won't be forthcoming. 

We are watching the seas turn red.

Just because it's not on my front steps,

Doesn't mean my soles don't bleed. 

If you want my silence,

I will up my screaming.

You can only buy my silence with peace. 

And there isn't a single line in between

That would make me settle.

If you want my silence,

I need your soul to listen in.

Cause these are the world's people you burn.

And that is the heart of the world you bomb. 

You cannot dehumanize that.

If you want my silence,

I need your backs unturned.

Bask in the damage and hurt you created.

Bask in the destruction cause you made this.

Your silence paid this.

You cannot get my silence. 

I will not pay the price.

You can't cover your lies with bodies

And I won't cover them with my life.

Living flame

I don’t care that you think I should stop caring.

I think you should be kinder.

I guess we all have something wrong

With us deep within.

As your lips keep calling them unhuman

To provoke a reaction of distress,

I will take my time to sink in deeper,

Deeper into the land.

You now know why I am a living flame.

There is still life left there.

And if finally caring for this hurts you,

I am here to take the blame.

I will gladly burn myself into cinder

If it will shine a light onto this all.

I will plummet myself into darkness

And I will gladly take the fall.

I will be the tinder

If you will just listen to their calls

For help.

Diet culture

The only numbers

That will go down

Are the ones

On your bank account

And the percentage 

Of self-esteem 

Hidden in the seams 

Of your brain. 

See.

You lost yourself 

Entirely.

Congratulations!

Tell me don't 

You feel lighter

Now?

Pay your rent

I'm breathing to the sound of my heartbeat.

A ringing in my ears that I can't ignore.

I'm breathing on the sound of running feet

And I cry with my eyes locked on my door.

I'm fine.

Aren't I?

I'm existing just so I can continue on. Somehow.

But there are thoughts in my brain I can't scratch.

Life continues to count the days down. Somehow.

But I'm still digging at the feelings in my chest.

I'm fine.

Aren't I?

People won't stop telling me to get 

Out of my head.

That it doesn't matter what is brewing, 

I'm safe in my bed.

Am I?

Am I?

I'm waiting for you to break and see

That people are dying

And it isn't just me.

The images burned into my mind won't dim.

My eyes search for faces in the news.

I'm ready to take my eyes and collect my sin.

While you keep pretending you never knew.

I'm not fine

Am I?

Distance means nothing to me 

And people never meant anything to you.

You just want the silence 

And I want some way to help,

Something to do.

Some way I'm not only

Watching them disappear

So soon.

We're not fine,

Are we?

~•~

They used to be dragons.

A square with bodies laid reverently in a line.

I mourn the stories that will be lost in time.

We should remember them when they are alive.

We should have cared enough to draw a line. 

We should have screamed.

Don't move past this, don't cross that sand!

These are lives crumbling away in your hands.

Those are people colouring your boots red.

What is left after you collected the dead

To pay your rent?

Swerve

 

I can’t see where I am going,

And my body is hitting the brakes.

But my car keeps on rolling,

Right into the lake.

I think I am drowning

In the eb and flow of my emotions.

And my depression has me

Going through the motion,

If I stop paddling I will go down.

Maybe then I can have a rest.

Feeling way too much have left

Me truly upset.

Take me out of the tailspin.

Take me back in my soft heart.

I promise I will behave and stop 

Tearing myself apart.