Skyscrapers

They said we never would, so we finally did

by that time, we were all already dead

just waiting for the light to show up and take us

it didn’t, so the rage finally boiled over

I showed you how to make a good fire

the gas canister pulled you down with it

until you emptied it in the lobby

there were so many, around us, laughing

and when the sparks lit up a smile, I knew I loved you

The suited men, for all their millions, couldn’t fly

they rained from the tops of the skyscrapers like well dressed rubble

I held your ears in my hands because it bothered you, the way they hit

and with my mouth I kissed your dirty forehead

The skyline was beautiful on fire

the shadows danced on the smoke clouds above

as if the great beast was dying before us, finally after all this time

I held your hand and we cheered a new world, one rising from the rubble

Where we would be something.