The night moonlight died
Mountains trembled their cedar trees
bowed the little stems that cascaded like stars between rivers
Now to gather the tree trunks boulders, burdens the fog
Legend are the fish all dead together in a cauldron of death
Stiff smiles push tears behind tired eyes
Every wail silenced inside
Only nails sealing coffins are heard tonight
Voices fall on deaf ears hands raised in solidarity
A game of chess is not necessary
When minds confine life
Cities fall into a lull
Until fire consumes a delusion peace
Drums pound inside my chest
My heartbeat returns from its death
Blood runs through my vein, shaking off drowsy remnants
Even now my heart aches for trees put to rest
Mountains stand tall for terrors I do not forget
Still stars shine, even if its only at night
Neighbors as close as atom to atom
In contact with someone at all times
No matter how far they may seem
Healing starts with company
Blood does not stop with someone else’s pressure
But persist peace begins to settle in
Remember how to breathe
Water surrounds me when I sink
Surrender to a warmth that wont ever release
For those of us living in fear of others like us
Who await the choices of others
Who go to the warm stove to go and get
An eruption is a mountain, pure fantasy
Here what’s real is gone for good
It is as life were shaped in emergency
The soft light of grieving death
radiated with warmth, glows alive
It matters how one passes and who they are
We all suffer loss
Throughout the day we speak to the dead
Say, ill return someday to save your soul
With the independent sky a technique to avoid a thirsty bullet
We are the buried,
Water surrounds when we wade into the deep
For those of us who live on short strings
We rush to find life again, breath again
We seek hope not seen with this long road
For decades, the magnitude of pain has prevailed
The great pandemic, the hounds of the hurricanes and the theft of the stars
Worship death in a big way
Lost in murder are pieces of my faith
Louder than the other
For there is unburied water around us when we wade into the deep
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