The weight of its features and the taste of dust
are the prices I pay for a face that won’t rust
But also my back buckles and my waking is strained
Still, this face is impervious to the wind and the rain
when I came to the river, I was so scared I’d drown
So I sat by the water, at home with the ground
till I met a man with a face made of skin
He jumped in the river and started to swim
Every road he had taken was carved on his brow
The scars of his travels he wore like a crown
The madness of him, to live so unguarded
was juxtaposed to the life he had fathered
So alone I sat, as even more passed me by
If my eyes were like their’s I think I would cry
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