Beast and the Snake - by Zeph E. Daniel

You are one with the sun You have run into the lacking field of curling weeds where once sustenance had been You are not of the earth but they convince you that you are But you are subject to a side that you know within, but always looking outside To the dawn The Beast and the snake pretend to be late but you are always looking ahead And never see what happens Now or never You’re not so clever At the subject at hand No books can help you land Far and away Up and sideways You seek the final end run Around the deceit your family put on you They put you on They put on you They turned you out So you buried the truth It is okay, you’re not at fault There has to be. way for the two sides of you to live together To live amongst them With no shame With no guilt That’s the program placed on you to make you hide Hide away, locked away Never to be heard from Because if you speak Walls come down Empires fall Never rise Magical perception Isn’t real Never to begin the end while it is worshiped like a god But never to begin the end Always out ahead Always perceived as an excuse to not breathe.