Transcontinental - Pedro The Lion

engine severs lower legs

feel my bruised heart beating

spinal cord remains intact

still sending and receiving

laying back on shoulder blades

cargo rushing past

missing limbs beneath the cars

twitching on the tracks

click clack now handicapped

north am transcontinental

i remember as i bleed

certain tales of bravery

a man who’s legs were trapped beneath

a fallen evergreen tree

he decided he would chop them off above the knee

to sacrifice his shins and feet to set his torso free

the luxury of having been spared the hard part

you’d think would be enough for me to pull this off

but i’m left to bleed to death

now all the man i’ve ever been

north am transcontinental