Hello

Give up now

C’mon now baby

Baby you can’t fight it,

You’re going to keep on the fight,

You’re going to fight your shadow.

You’re going to love the fucking night.

It will get bigger with ever punch and kick and bite,

Fight against the hand holding yours in calm calmly water.

Don’t fight it when the sugar heat rises in your blood to brain,

Clogged lashes and splashes of lamps and daughters to slaughter.

It moves you know to knee and back again as you embrace it all again,

Of deeds left done in skin tight gritted pain sweat pooling at the knuckles base.

Cast over us in blank stages and hollow tears washed away by times beating march,

Linger, linger, linger in the dark of sin and begin a life of love and breath and thought.

Taste the past of deeds left done,

Hear pain of past deeds done,

See shadow fall over deeds done,

Shame of shadow’s guide,

Guide of shadows shame,

Shadow guides shame.

Shame guides shadow,

Guide guides shadow,

Guide guides shame.

Guide us down

Then guide us up

© 2014 Jared "I.J" Steinberg. All Rights Reserved.

#poetry