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The Book

from Sapphire (2016) by Alexis Penney

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I read your book
watered your garden
planted stories about you 

and us 
all over dark wet ground
and watched it grow 

into a forest 
til’ it blocked out 
all the sun and I sound of the 

world outside and 
the people we know and you and I 
It's a miracle I survived 

I read your book 
taught you to pray 
taught you to write 

I held your hand 
we are the same 
now I walk behind 

I met another man and then another and another 
called you Father Man 
I mothered you all 

on beds of leaves 
sleeping at my side 

the wind says no 
you’re angry at night 

your cities bleed 
by electric light 

hungry bodies 
covered in lines 

sell the darkness 
own the light 
you think you have it all but you have nothing

you say you hold the truth
the sun and moon 
and I should walk behind 

I don't fear the truth 
the world your noose 
your truth is
a lie 

sons who fear the Fallen One 
the Evening Star 
afraid to die 

I can see the Truth 
we are the same 
I set you 
on fire 

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from Sapphire (2016), released December 25, 2016
M. Beharie / A. Penney

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