Cool Intentions - Islands

I cannot finish the painitng

the landscape’s amazing

but it feels like it’s made with an IED,

a fantasy

of all the wicked things

I’d like to see

now that the stillness too

has faded from view

if I could be

more like the sea

I’d wave you in

'til you were swallowing, swallowing me

climb on me as carelessly

and you’ll feel the bough give

underneath, suddenly

but I’m just a series of breaths

not a tree, not yet

I will still take your breath away

all people

are evil

I have lied to you

tried to do good

but I am too