Sylvia

Look,

I did it again

One year in every ten

I eat the flesh off a dying man

Regurgitate that worm

I fed my broken wing baby bird

choked on a verse

Don’t mistake

this room’s full

of blood pulled

out the womb and tides pooled by the moon

Frida died 13th of July

she said

“I hope my exit’s joyful

I hope never to return” 

As for me, I’m living on a slow burn

 finding fellowship where my fellows left me fallow till my crops come again

One year in every ten

Yes, I did it again

I ripped the flesh straight off of that man

That’s my seven-year curse, rip the wings straight off of a bird

Every 28 days the moon has his way with me they say that my womb is a slave

I can’t run away, so I spend all my days just gnawing away at my legs

Look,

I did it again

I ripped the flesh straight off of that man

I

Regurgitated that worm to feed my little baby bird

That’s my seven-year curse

Sylvia, I did it again, I ripped the flesh straight off of that man

Winter’s bout to set

real deep, real deep, real deep in

Baby, please dry those eyes

Cuz even water can leave you fired

even water can scar

Have you scrape your dreams straight out of a jar

Sylvia,

I did it again,

I ripped the flesh straight off of that man

That’s my seven-year curse

Icarus fell straight out the sky

Don’t fly

so close to the sun son

less you want to get burned

Shot up

Rock shut

Shut up, I’ve had enough

that’s the Christening cry of a  baby baptized in fire

Realized that baby was mine

Cuz I danced with the devil

He has the softest hands

He put them in me again and again

You wonder why I shit here drying my eyes

Cuz Even water will leave ya fried

Even water can leave ya scared

Have you scrape your dreams straight out a jar