father figure

from burier in the tidelands by Justin Lawson

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my aching eyes can't fill the plane
up above the old moraine
though i read of icy glades
the sun can't reach

the lake is high inside the mount
naked on the marbled ground
i sleep away a tarnished skin
and wake inside his

father you love me
why don't you hold me
under the water
into the current
of the cold blue sky

you came to take back
forms that i made you
combing the beach for
hotels of driftwood to spend the night
spend the night

the sunlight is fading my head

the metal scars that mark the cliff
sing their teeth upon the wind
though they tell of human hands
the night draws over them

father you hold me
still you don't know me
half-light old country
bearing the banner
of the dark blue night

you came to take back
all that you told me
it wasn't the foglights
wasn't the forest
or your tired eyes
tired eyes

tell me your story
time will not bathe us in light
no one is holding us inside

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from burier in the tidelands, released December 23, 2018

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