Suffocating the Magpie -

This may be the final straw that fractures our backs

Our knees begin to buckle and break as we carry the weight of our broken pieces

Gentlemen is this the love you want

Desire came last night to your bed

And now your begging the warden for bread

Your belly is full but your heart is a tomb

Your belly is full but your heart begs for rapture

You call this love, I call this capture

It’s love you want but it’s not love we’re after

The taste of feast is on my teeth, but all we want is swallow

The children dance merrily because they haven’t seen what we’re capable of Oh savages

Turn off your Television screens and unplug your computer monitor,

rip pages from the books and magazines

But we’ll never completely wipe away our fingerprints on all the misery

I called you my daughter

I called you my mother

Forgive us my sister, I am the curse

I can’t see you, just the you I need you to be All this time you were crying and I turned my back

I can’t hear you, just the you I need you to be All this time you were crying I was deaf to your screaming

It’s not the lines we draw between right and wrong

It’s the system that’s failing and we are the cause of it And it’s a cancer to us both

We’ve been slaves for too long

So grace be our guide

Migration’s essential if we’re to survive

Grace be our guide