#1183 - short straw

 

1183

29.iii.23

4.88

short straw

or

chosen

 

the special thing is thinking you’re special

 

chosen, singled out

they broke the mould

you’re one of a tribe

 

it’s knowing that you’ve been

… given the treatment

 

you’re a survivor

others? not so

 

must have a cenotaph

 

I’m here today to tell

and you too

you’re reading this

 

you’re in on the secret

 

will you remember?

of course, you must

you’re special

 

it’s like with love

say ‘you’re the one’

 

or dangle thing between legs

that’s special

and especially so

 

up in the sky

 

we check the traps

for death

 

we have to be very particular

who else has been driven so far?

who else has the dread?

 

for great things

and a light cast on

 

it’s so so long since the beginning

still keeping count

 

go on till the end of days

 

you who were with me high

in the battle, cloud capped

glint of by rights

 

come home on a shield

and some vanished to air

 

what kept us?

it was that we were special

 

it’s a special thing

that kind of thinking

 

no, think again

that’s not special at all

 

it’s once upon a time

and somebody made this stuff up

went on to believe

 

it’s everyone has that

it’s just as I live and breathe