No Name Song

On the Capital’s granite steps
Site of flagellations
Will you ever wake the lie?
Will you ever dot the “i” in id?

I’ve counted all the years
The derivatives and anticlines
But there was even hope in Rome
The day that Caesar died

Can you walk onto the porch?
Turn off the light that shines through the window
So black can tuck in tightly
Crucify for asking, “why?”
There’s emptiness in timelessness
Waiting for resolve

Can you carry back a space
A hollow in the neck of a yearling
That all of this can suffice
To ignore it with no sacrifice

Who’s counted all the lives,
Smoke stacks and antique lines
We’ve buried more today
Than could fill the whole damn sky

Will I ever walk the lie?
Will I ever dot the “I” in id?
Can you bury all the cancelled checks?
Posted with the hope
That living-love, consuming
Could add up to something, yet.

 

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