Your Place in the Ground

by o Ceti

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in spite of sense
when a poison spreads this warmly you can tell yourself
it’s self defense
to allow the shape to gather mass and shield you from
its consequence
where the signal’s cut from brain to tongue and sleep eludes
and traps the thought in the mind

the world’s not
coming to an end but if it was you’d feel the same
your mind is fraught
with a million different ways it could’ve gone instead
now hold your thoughts
and be silent as you listen to
the way the earth still turns when you are gone

run
from the fallout and hide
retreat into what you were
take your place in the ground

don’t
let your life get too good
I don’t know how it ever could
long as I’m still around

I hardly sleep
these days and never in the nights I’ll shut my eyes
and in the deep
I’ll soak but nothing can compel me to drift off
I’d never keep
myself awake if I could sleep beside you
but for now this’ll have to do

it doesn’t hide
in the holes behind my eyes like it once did it knows
I’m getting wise
to the way it does its damage but it’s too late now
I’m paralyzed
what if that’s the only thing that keeps me careful
to be truly good to you?

run
from the fallout and hide
retreat into what you were
take your place in the ground

don’t
let your life get too good
I don’t know how it ever could
long as I’m still around

run
from the fallout and hide
retreat into what you were
take your place in the ground

don’t
let your life get too good
I don’t know how it ever could
long as I’m still around

how
many of us do you think
will be here ten years from now
will I still be alive?

I
don’t know if I’ll ever be
a person that picks themself up
and says “I’m gonna thrive!”

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released November 24, 2020

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