Without me

Without me*
Knowing
I might be more Moses
Than Captain
Leading a charge
Taking us over border
Into tommorrows
I accepted
Might be yesterday’s man.

“Unblooded”**
Sketch battle plans
In tangled arteries
Bones bent
By institutional indifference
Can’t find ink?
Draw down ichor
Scrawl message
“fairest in the land?”

Carnival mirror
Distorts
Abundance
Scatters to chaos
Hope
Decomposes to promises
Community
Unworks
To fiber
To skin
To sheep

Maybe
It is undone time
Fallow fields
Reclaim bodies
To nurture possibilities

NanaBjörn Aug 2023

*Inspired by “Well you Can Do it Without Me” by Father John Misty on “Fear Fun” 2012

**WW1 soldiers showing up at hospitals without physical wounds were sometimes called the “unblooded”