I am still here<\/p>\n
Because you are here too
\nas a map for a lost child searching
\nfor his mother on Earth’s mouth.<\/p>\n
Because I compose songs from things
\nmarked as food for fire, as elements
\ntoo weak to survive the blacksmith’s furnace.<\/p>\n
Because we agreed not to light out at once \u2013
\nthere are so many who’d look to us for rays
\nwhen darkness chokes their world.<\/p>\n
Because I do not endure in silence.
\nI scream loud enough to quake grief
\nwith songs whose lyrics only me understand.<\/p>\n
Because I sing the name of my demons
\naloud, to my moulder, to you, to friends.
\nAnd I sing of me as a bird of colourful feathers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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