Early October when the bomb went off,Tearing us apart.
A brother here, a sister there.
Scattered across the globe.
Like the shock had made
Roots suddenly disappear.
Wandering to find them again.
Something to anchor me to life,
And something to pretend
That none of this ever happened.
It was like walking under a tree
Green burning bright
Like a star in the night.
Until it drops its snow
Right down your back
And your spine inverts itself.
The snow no colder than
The snowball fight earlier.
But never expected.
I never expected any of this
I trusted you,
I loved you.
But after you left,
We didn’t talk for months.
You didn’t understand that.
How could you think,
Nothing would change between us?
When you tore my heart right out.
I was a child,
Not a liver,
I’m not that resilient!
Are you stupid?
Or can you just think
That wishfully?
Couldn’t you have thought wishfully,
About her too?
Build her up in your mind.
Something better than she was,
Instead of leaving me all alone with her,
The only boy around.
We were six!
Then just three,
Only boy was me.
Brothers dug for oil,
Money for their toil.
We all got new family.
Pretend it’s normal
This prefix ‘step’ for everybody.
A monosyllabic word for ignorance.
Did you have stinging nettles
In the corners of your mind,
Shrouding your secrets from yourself?
I didn’t know what a man was!
How could I instantly become?
I guess you didn’t know either.
I found a new father,
He’s never let me down.
He’s unshakable.
Yeah we talk now,
About the weather,
And the price of gas.
But it will never be the same,
I can’t think that wishfully.
I won’t struggle to get as close.
You used to hold me close,
Just to be near me,
I treasure the memory.
It was twelve years ago you left,
Twelve years with a cleft heart.
When you changed the definition of home.
I’m trying to be eloquent now,
But all I can think of,
Is just how much it hurt.
– Vagabond Prophet
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Sunset begins, peach reduction in the sky
Sugars crystallizing at the boundaries of my gaze,
In just a few short hours I’ll lay down to sleep
Will my dreams turn to peat
And fertilize my reality?
Vagabond Prophet
Stop Moving
I actually got some sleep
For the first time in a while,
Fortifies my being
One hour at a time.
Interesting this method you chose to energize
As if to say,
“Just stop moving
So I can move through you.”
– Vagabond Prophet
Bus ahead of schedule
Sit and wait awhile
For time to catch up with us.
Vagabond Prophet
It’s brighter every morning now
Sky more blue than grey
Shedding it’s night skin
To let the day pour fourth.Here I stand
Come smother me in light
Vagabond Prophet
Muddied
You spent too long in that forbidden land
Too many lungfuls of that water
To not be muddied by it.
Every time you cough
It still smells of deceit.
It’s true God forgives
I’m trying to do the same
But the problem is my nose
It works as good as ever
And the stink of deceit is still on you
From those years long ago.
– Vagabond Prophet
Jack the Ripper
Jack the Ripper
Herod Agrippa
Is this all that’s left
Men like these or worse?
Where are those with strength
To aid at great length
Did they all go underground
Or just get tired of the rest of us.
Those with a gentle voice
To help us with choice
A guiding hand
To hold when the wind blows.
My sails are full
My branches are shaking
Potential to get somewhere
And potential to capsize.
Someone help me,
Show me how it’s done
Someone I can trust
Who’s gone before me.
Or am I just left to learn
What I can
From Jack the Ripper
And Herod Agrippa?
– Vagabond Prophet
When you lose hair do you gain something else?
Wisdom I hope, but no greys to prove it.
What a shame.
Vagabond Prophet
Cross the partition
Take off your mask
One step at a time
Sip from a flask.
No one left
In whose presence to bask.
Vagabond Prophet
Corrugated
Have you ever met
Someone so dishonest,
That there lies must be fabricated?
Not imagined,
But built,
Out of real material.
Corrugated words,
Folded back,
Against one another.
Hoping they can bare
The weight of their
Collective despair.
– Vagabond Prophet
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