I walk as a servant
With rings for eyes
Wanting no king
Little boys like to hunt
Too much excitement in woods
Will make them forget names
Overkilled road kill
Blood pulse reads rapidly
Veins will burst
Forest with little remembrance of footsteps
Only trees recollect memory
Forest filled with lazy movements
He wears no skin
While hunting at dawn
Clean his collected pelts
Black ink pours out of toenails
Prints of paths left behind
Please don’t follow mine
Windows with no sight
Cold fingers slip through holes
Is this how my brother Andrew feels?
I did not aim this arrow
But my eyes will follow
And watch point of impact
Aged wood and broken granite
Memory of children imprinted on ground
Wasteland reeks of impurity
I see him with no arms
Forced to grin with bloody teeth
Hanging from tied feet
Lost domain of fallen king
Foreign wolves under new rule wander
Tearing throats of old believers
With this arrow, I pierce my jaw
Teeth flow from manmade hole
This way I won’t drown
Can’t give shadows back
Explosion plastered to wall
In light, sleep under manufactured dust
I sit on silver
Sipping from stolen skulls
Swallowing royalty
Man in concrete show your face
Prove to me I’m not alone
But I know in my flesh and in my bone
Murdered king sees justified crown
Stolen antlers create memory of pain
Those who wear know of false royalty
Lost in modern beliefs
King mocks those who eat blindly
King doesn’t know they eat his flesh
I tell boys to put out fire
They just laugh at crossed eye chickens
Now our town is doomed
I accidentally stabbed wolf’s eye out
With his one bloody socket, he screams
I fear wolf is going to kill
Chains roll across trembling hills
Colliding with innocent homes
Summer breeze becomes a cry
Late night drinks with lesser gods
Listening to split tongues
They say I could be their higher deity
Infant with no toes
Crawls deep into puddles
Laughing at those who walk
Sleep to rising ground
Gentle whisper of cracking rock
Dreams of discovery planted
I wish I could laugh like you
But it takes time to settle down
So I begin to pretend