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blood and water

Summary:

for his brother, it is about choice
for him, it is about being chosen

Notes:

Reading the "Never Ending Song" poetry anthology has done something to my psyche. However, I'm gonna be very upfront about not dabbling in poetry and getting it as intimately as the folks in the antho. However however, I feel like this is the best medium to get this particular Knives thought out of my head, so even if this isn't good, I hope it still manages to evoke something.

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

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we were born into lukewarm water

swirling shimmering into the vast unknown

encased in glass, transparent, impenetrable

a bridge

a hope

 

sepsis blares through the pores

tendons and muscles and bones keep shape pale water

there must have been blood once

for naught

trudge through this bleary reality

embraced by their water and blood

the tang of metal washes all the salt at the corner of my lips

they shan't bleed for naught

 

you bleed

draped over skin

worn like a badge

sought as a bounty

slung like a shield

so that you can turn deaf to the pleas

you save your tears for those who won't shed them for you

you shed your blood for those trying to drain it from you

 

blood of the covenant is thicker than water of the womb

 

the bloodless

the barren

doom

Notes:

hahaha what is that ending, the way i tried to condense a vibe but also want to talk about it at length like have you seen that guy's proximity with the plants' corpses and corpse water? Anyways they also have the poems collection !