[Would It Kill You To Trust]
written by: John Sweet
or maybe you bleed out slowly,
like vincent in his sunday best
maybe you mistake christ for
someone who can help
for someone worth believing in
and there is no shame in an empty life,
but there should at least be a future
a map, maybe, scratched into
the creamy white skin of your lover’s back
a desert, and the three of us in the
middle of it, and i am
tired of talking about the past,
but what else?
the future is unknowable and
all too predictable,
the future a weight pressed down
hard on my heart
a bright red dot between
my shoulder blades where the shot will
find me and tear me in two
no death but violent death here in
the kingdom of nil, and so we give medals
to the butchers of human flesh
we speak highly of freedom, but only
for those who think like us
only for those who are
willing to learn their place
- Love Song in The Kingdom of Ashes - April 6, 2022
- In The Torn-Apart Years - December 7, 2021
- This Dangerous Silence - August 26, 2021
