Will you sail away with me?
Far behind the reaches of the iron jungle
and the electric wires that strangle us in our sleep
and the bright little screens that blind us with the
hateful information they show.
Far past all the war and the pain, the blood and tears,
the bombs that kill millions
and the mothers who cradle their dead children,
screaming into the dusty night that it wasn’t fair.
Will you sail away with me?
We can live off the sea, and try to name all the fishes we see.
Perhaps if we sail far enough,
we’ll see the great sea serpent of old.
We’ll race it to the edge of the world,
neck to neck,
and instead of eating us, the great sea serpent
will tell us that our people once were voyagers
before we became afraid of the sea.
Or perhaps we’ll see the churning, roaring
Charybdis and let her swallow us whole,
her sharp teeth not sharp but instead
like the caress of a mother tucking you in for bed.
She’ll take us to a new world
with no war and pain, no blood and tears.
No mothers who cry over corpses.
No iron jungles and wires that strangle us
and little bright screens.
Instead it’ll be us and the Earth,
back to our roots.
Doesn’t that sound nice?
Why don’t you sail away with me?
-K
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