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I Eat Your Words

from Outside, the Great Drought by Hyena

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I eat all your words and make everyone dumb,
the air feels heavy let’s call it a cultural sublimation.

I dreamed you alive into this world,
but we polished and we polished and we washed it all away.

Like how I live in fear of filing all of my thoughts away –
I haven’t done a single day’s work, but I’m feeling oh-so-lazy.

I dreamed you alive into this world,
but we polished and we polished and we never even left a single stain.

My heroes are bloated and their egos are, as well (oh well)
but my spirit here is the thinnest of all –
diamond studded and dull.

I dreamed you alive into this world...

but we polished and we polished
and we left you nice and garnished
with lace and flowered harness
you were left until you tarnished
trapped within our treasured chests,
yes, we promised you the best,
but time would surely be the test,
and careless in our unrest, we
came to rely on you to keep us cheering,
hearing words that kept us
steering for the goal – the grand revealing, but our
eyes turned large and green
and monstrous, or so it seems,
and we kept you out of beams of light
that should have made you sheen,
and suddenly
you were old – and better yet – you were told,
“you look stunning with your parasol,”
but to keep out of the light
and they were right! yes, you were tired,
no longer easily admired,
you had simply long expired,
no longer had what was required,
and when we saw you later pass,
we never gave a second glance
we kept at a safe distant stance,
and sickened you with nonchalance!

But we will pay in time you see -
Outside, the drought is thickening!
The weight of our own piety
will shatter our poor fragile knees.

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from Outside, the Great Drought, released February 11, 2011

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