You'll know me when you see me
05/23 2023
You'll know me when you see me,
I'll wear an Egyptian necklace,
Necktie of gilded silver,
Bloodied cotton rags tied around my legs,
And cloak of purple velvet,
Playing the fiddle with onyx strings
Handed down from Briton kings.
I'm not afraid of anything,
But especially not myself
As it appears through nocturnal shivers.
Oh, sundown, let that moonlight serenade play on
Long after the red midnight.
I speak falsities and you try to defy me,
I sing of truth and you join me in its chorus.
My words seep into the ground
And give birth to green rivers
Which run from crystal mountains;
Where frogs compose sepulchral hymns,
Where skylarks go on turning tricks,
Where the moon rose for horses and their riders,
Where rocks tumble from high above,
Each one bigger than the last.
And that's not mentioning the tempest
Which tries to pull me down to the old world.
Don't worry, I'm floating on.
I am the best sailor there is,
Wave me goodbye and it won't be the last.
Speak to me in foreign tongues
And I shall cover it in honey with a hint of thyme.
I have the sharp wit of Roman orators,
I get killed just the same,
My tongue presented on a silver platter
For old witches to experiment upon.
The life of a slave is no life at all,
Our freedom trumps the threat of death.
Your word in the wind shall carry me home,
It shall tell me from where Poseidon hides.
You stare at my face full of battle scars,
I got them in distant lands long ago.
Poets sing of my strife and believe me dead,
You know better, you're holding my hand in yours.
You chase the bluebird which sings the truth.
Beyond the pale, truth dances with falsity, oh, carry me on.