singing a song through shattered bone
i'm sorry saul williams
that i can't hear your voice
in your words
"said the shotgun to the head"
because funnily enough i feel like
there is a love here
in embracing cold steel between my teeth
every kiss an avalanche
every stone a mote of love
sending a letter to no one
i'll beg in front of your
infinite glory and polish home's steps
with my tongue
search me for your prey
and let me hold your trigger in my spindly hands
let me die, now
bouts of forgiveness awash with
a putrid veneer of gasping falsehoods
i can barely breathe, i suppose
with my throat blown out
and the world is so perfect
and the worlds within you seek love
and the worlds within you are love
its so joyful, is it not?
a ride to nihility, charge only
in the blink of an eye.
there are too many too many things in the sky
angels breathe down my neck begging for
you to tear gashes through my brain stem
and grab and rip each feather out
from my rotting wings
because how else can you make a flower
oh how i love your laugh
my vision can't hold on looking at myself anymore
fret not, the notes will come to you naturally
sing a song with me
our voices keening out into the moonlight
echo, rolling, descent, lift
hand of a noble ghost is tainted with my blood
and leave me there, now, forever
in all the truths visible in words of the wind
the only thing fitting to wish my death was me
and the speech was all so garbled with a barrel down my throat
that finally, god
you didn't have to hear me speak.
once again, the world is so perfect
and everything that you seek you will find.
just please
don't look for me