Thursday 30 May 2019

the family myth


in the family myth
we escape winter
we escape water 
we escape the amnesia of the sea
and somehow there's me

in the family myth
we escape desert 
we escape searchers 
we escape the arbitrary decree 
and somehow there's me

all of this must be true
because somehow there's me
and somehow there's you

in the family myth
we escape cages
we escape rages
we escape the rogues of history 
and somehow there's me

in the family myth
we escape post-war
we escape closed door
we escape the Land of the Free
and somehow there's me

all of this must be true
because somehow there's me
and somehow there's you

in the family myth
we know their order to shoot on sight
we cross the border and move by night
and go on

in the family myth
we cross the water of a rolling sea
and all of us, some of us, one of us
must slip free
and go on

in the family myth
we escape exposure 
we escape erasure
we escape the men who hack the family tree
and somehow there's me

all of this must be true
because somehow there's me
and somehow there's you




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