As We Look On - Artifex Pereo

Hail the sinking boat

Surrender hope of vessels stout & guaranteed to float

The sea will sway

But rummaged rock is all that’s left of home

Satiate with waves or hide & wait to explode

When gods of every faith can’t fit into one sky

Stay, it’s comfortable

Work against the state and you’ll find pain

The miracle faded when you tried to climb out

Aim with your satellites

Stay safe while our race expires

Claim stake when you’re obliged

Save face and fire in the night

We’ve cauterized wounds inflicted by alienation of those beyond our sight

Denaturalized, the displaced provide asylum for our careless privileged kind

Counting shells until sleep

Afraid to dream & believe that the initiative lost

Children know the difference between rockets

& sounds of the dud barrel bombs

Surrendered is pure adolescence

Childhoods are robbed

Pounded into the streets;

still holding out for relief that’s proven to be far

off

Slay the barbarous

With the will of God we’ll kill them all

A meaningless death is not what we had sought out

Aim with your satellites

Stay safe while our race expires

Claim stake when you’re obliged

Save face and fire in the night

As we look on, helplessly veiled with shock

Life still goes on, desensitized with suffocating denial

Hail the sinking boat

Surrender hope of vessels stout & guaranteed to float

The sea will sway

But rummaged rock is all that’s left of home

Aim with your satellites

Stay safe while our race expires

Claim stake when you’re obliged

Save face and fire in the night

As we look on, helplessly veiled with shock

Life still goes on, desensitized with suffocating denial