Did you pray today?
Have you said the names?
Did you question your own purpose?
Those we lost will come back to us
With faces filled with gold
Their tongues bound by cloth
Their true words gone
Time to remove the mask
Aren't you an animal?
Don't you remember how to be?
Don't you see them out there
Staring in the window
Taking down our names?
Before we line up in courtyards
And march into the woods
Kick over their tables
And throw their papers to the wind
If we live
We live by
Chewing through our leg
And fleeing from the trap
With new eyes
Will we
Slip through the lines
If we live
We live as fire

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