hope is an island

hope is an island

crashing against the waves of adversity

overcome by a rising sea

conquered and colonized by the civilized

clearcut and fucked up by men with dreams

OH ISLAND CITY YOUR TOWERS REVERED

by hollow breasts that beat with time

sink in your streets and suffer your crimes

while the rivers on your sides all drown in sludge

from the lands you've raped and people you loved

SHE IS THE DESTROYER

riding headless and hopeless on dark muscular fear

trampling all under the sharp hooves of desperation

her salvation forsaken

her fists in the air

still gripping the reigns as if they'd lead her somewhere

THERE'S AN ISLAND IN YOU & THERE'S AN ISLAND IN ME

separated by the corpse of the sea

from atop my mountain and the tallest tree

I gaze out towards you as far as I can see

over the waves of refuse and decay

upon your shores there are children at play

and beyond them stretch a few streets of gold

into the city of a fist that you hold

up rise your towers, the beacons of fear

that scan and devour the horizon

looking for an island

to take at your will