The Empress - Brett Anderson

Didn’t I try

To love her?

Didn’t I paint

Pictures of her?

Didn’t I try

To change?

I shouldn’t have bothered.

Didn’t I buy

The ocean for her?

Didn’t I wear

The colour (?)

Didn’t I feel

The wind?

Didn’t I plead?

She is strange

And sorrow.

She is

Like cherry blossom.

She is

The Empress.

Didn’t I kneel

Before her?

Didn’t I follow

Her orders?

Didn’t I clean

Her shit?

Didn’t I fall?

Didn’t I climb

The ladder?

Didn’t I smile

For the cameras?

Didn’t I feel

The wind?

Didn’t I plead?

(? bleed)

She is strange

And sorrow.

She is

Like cherry blossom.

She is

The Empress.

She is strange

And sorrow.

With lips

Like cherry blossom.

She is

The Empress.