Catharsis

I cracked the world and what emerged

A gaily feathered lyrebird

Calling my name in every tongue but yours

All flies will struggle against their fate

The crooked lines that we force straight

I know a web when one is placed before me

Antipsychotics do the trick

Though neither free of pain nor quick

They'd core us like so many rotten pears

My gut would tie in aching knots

My head cascade with just such thoughts

If I could hear them over the tossing of your

Hair

This ancient custom's learned by rote

We sound the pitches note for note

The primal cadence of some grand upheaval

Life runs downhill until you die

When the momentum from on high

Carries you deep into an earthen hell

We played with matches once when young

But years have robbed our puerile fun

We need infernos now to leave the ground

I bathe in poems clothe in psalms

My lips are dripping with napalm

And all my ire's bent to burn this whole mess

Down

Let's raise it to the ground

We'll set it all aflame

And burn our cares away

Let's burn this whole mess down