Mother Soil

Winter like shallow graves

Burying the cinders

From a fall oblivious to the fields

An eerie presence

A ghost, faceless and quiet

Silenced by the black season of the land

A heritage of scars

Framed on your breasts

Earned after long years of suffering encaged

Now put down your covers

Unveil to me

Before being your outcast

I am still your breed

Then I will see what is real

Digging the craters where fevered crowds failed

And majesties starved

Open wounds that ceased to recover

The blood-washed earth turned

The beaten cheek of indifference

Skinned by the hunger of the land

Standing before my dynasty

I taste my own tongue

And tripping from the poison

I embraced the cause in me

The weight of the oceans

At a drop of a tear

Breaches the surface

And floods

Into your hands

My gift of shame

Burning bright

Chasm of fortune

Dives below

Bringing skyline close

See this child

Walk that mile

It feels like he always believed

In his heart a secret

Incomplete

Long retrieved

Of taking all he felt deserved from the start

Unleash the fires

That cleanse the inside

And lead the way to a new morning

Somewhere beyond these gates

A sense of belonging

To endure what secrecy's deformed

The womb was sewn

The offspring was splattered out

No compromise

The reverie berthed in darker shores

The sand was cold

Yet warmed by virgin feet

And every stumble

Would drain the venom off the rotten marrow

The wanderlust

Found its dead end underground

Now the skies too

Became a promise to these orphaned eyes

Gone

Far beyond the pale

Lost

Swallowed by the roots of the unknown

Sovereign

This navel cord will be tangled around my throat

Forevermore

And in my wildest dreams

Caught in descent

Still lies a promised land of glories and wealth

Lay all your darkness

Drown with me

For all that is held dearly

Is fated to deceive

Then you will feel the hurt you've done to me