I.
Cracked into the sidewalk
Spread out everywhere
Sunny side down
Dragged under a thick syrup
Of my own sorrow
I can’t breathe
Drowned in my own thoughts
A wind howls in my mind
Orders me to march
Obediently I follow
Unable to contain myself
I feel no remorse
The guilty never do
I wander
II.
Strike rocks against each other
Just to see a spark
Anything that I can follow
Lead me back to reality
To see the leaves fall
To hear my footsteps in an empty hallway
To watch the hawk again
The one with a pigeon
Talons like knives
Preyed on the weak
I prayed for the prey
But somebody has to live
Right?
III.
Snap my fingers
Just to show how brief it really is
A stomp on the ground is more like it
Like stepping on a cockroach
Sad but necessary
Sometimes
I feel like I’m being watched
They talk about me I can hear it
The one that’s furthest way
I could harm
One day I will be the cockroach
Under god’s shoe, he says
I know that
Like a cactus knows how to cling onto water
IV.
Thirst hits me at the back of my throat
Between my tongue and esophagus
Need reality
Just like that
A taste
But I boarded a plane without a pilot
I don’t ever see it grounded
I only see myself
Cracked into the sidewalk
Spread out everywhere
Sunny side down…
