asleep on park

from departure by dana sterling

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Berating the battered
The bruised relentlessly villainized
Through violent contrast
Forced to adhere
To identical seams
Pieces that don’t fit
And never could
Driving divide
Full force and flinching
Asleep on Park
While energy leaks
Cold rain is soaking
Skin through to bone
Existence shouldn’t look like this

Blood sucked deep from every organ
It spills in another dimension
Where there is
No air, no soil, no sun
Just aches, sharp tastes
Night terrors to replace
Each seed we’ve buried below
While insurrection bubbles beneath
Building to break through
The binds that have been wrapped tight
A million lives born together but
Separated by constructs
We never consented to
A choir of voices condemn
Bootstraps thrown at us
Like led life jackets
And we’re done
Trading minimum sums
In exchange for blood
Floating among
Billions laid down before us
We are far too loud
To continue to ignore us

Climbing numbers
Impossible Standards
Lifeless sick bastards
Won’t convince us to suffer

Portraits of dreams
Aching and ruined
Fictions collapse
Fight for your lives

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from departure, released August 21, 2022

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