i am no smoker of

cigarettes, i only ever inhaled

the rotten smell of your

heart and the fresh scent of rain.

one went straight to my

heart and the other to my brain

and they never reached an

agreement ever again.

the sun shined through

your eyes, gazed into mine

and loved my heart anyway.

we weren’t rained on,

no waves made you

drift away or drown. it was

them, the waves, that held you

high and mighty. they made you

so powerful, the sun accepted

your claim of me.

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sweet fines, sweet trials, we have had over thousands of years to wail / have you heard my girls ancient weepings, she begged and begged / for the emperor, who yelled and screamed, as his head was torn off / it is the dawning that will reveal the lies / stand up / rise / advance, go on and feel what is yours.

no emperor / survived the long months you and i had to swallow. no monarch / has survived the bitter battles we had to face. no king / no queen / no royalty / have survived the betrayal we always felt when those who rised did not deliver. you did not deliver. nor did i. but i was the one who wrote the history books.