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Sünu and Iauaria and Ihy and Bragi
Japanese Breakfast and Riit and Mäneskin
Of Monsters and Men
From Old Gods to New
What counts as a God of Music?
Is it Toomaj Salehi and Shervin Hajipour
Martyrs for their songs and their revolution
or the Edelweiss Pirates
Teenagers who were hanged for singing banned music
Would it be Macklemore
Or Sherine
For writing (knowing and not) protest anthems
sung at rallies and marches by people demanding humanity
from a world that forgot it.
Is it Kendrick Lamar
for obliterating Drake and dancing on his grave
Or is it me
who listens to music and daydreams
who fumbles through my piano lessons
who misses my homes
and listens to the music of people from the countries I came from
to feel like a person
to feel real.
Biracial -
Alone-
But when I listen to music
I'm home.