DemonXIII

You make my soul smile My mind fly My heart drum And my very essence believes that you're the one And I love you You make my heart bleed tears of anguish You fuck my mind into an endless oblivion Sometimes I want to kill you but that would kill me And I can't kill me because I know that would destroy you But I love you With you I live and die I soar higher than the sky's boundaries Which is why…the plummet I took did more than shatter me Because I love you Without you I cease

Once upon a time, I was a little boy made of wood Two arms for climbing, two legs with feet for running, Two hands for greeting all the people I meet And one head to keep some thoughts in… Yes, once upon a time, I was a little boy made of wood And I certainly had all that a little boy should …Lost… This little boy got taller, grew older and smarter Took in the world, with no mother or father That he didn’t mind but soon he did find That his little wood frame felt so hollow inside It simple he knew, what he wanted was a friendship anew Someone to laugh, have fun with and share, Someone who would care, and alwa

I remember hearing the uncrowned reverend King, preaching to the crowds of kin, Former queens and kings and those in between, about how all women and men Whether Jew or gen, black or white, were in fact created in equal sight With equal right and that just might be true But somewhere along the lines I think things got lost in translation, don’t you? Lies became believed, reinforced and internalised As our minds were filled with memories and teachings of our slavery days Filled with forced trips across the seas and sickening lashes of the whip made it hard to see, heavily jading our gaze And that history, black history Effectivel

Hush, hush my baby Come here, let me hold you in my arms and wrap you in security See, I know sometimes when you wake up it’s just a little scary As far as your little eyes can see, there’s no mummy and there’s no daddy There’s no familiar faces filling in the spaces around you Just the usual constraints of your cots safety braces As they surround you like prison bars, but keep you from falling from where you are And right now, where you are is not where you want to be Are you cold? Do you feel alone and a little hungry? You maybe even just had a bad dream, but you can’t talk yet so you can’t converse th

Our Father, I beg of you please A moment of your time for hands now as humbled as these I've not lead the best of lives But lived the best that I could do And in this now my darkest hour, I ask for a moment with you Never been one for prayer, never been a real follower But judgement is at my door, I feel his breath on my shoulder Cold blunt steal pressed against the back of my skull And a deep, disturbing lull falls like a blanket from the sky If not for the fear that courses my veins I'm sure I'd break down and cry Instead I kneel here and ask for forgiveness Offer change if I could, and you as my witness That if I get a second

It's completely evident without spoken evidence that things between us have changed And, say you will, it's all-good I know it's not the same So I guess in actuality I have to find equilibrium in this new reality And live with the realisation that, apparently you're stronger than me Because I can't pretend anymore, can't forget what we had before And if the jury would just take a look at the evidence It will become painfully evident that it's time to shut this case And just in case you don't understand, that means… No more sitting on your sofa, with inches and tension between us While my hand twitches and thinks of holding yours No