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Let's See How Far a Man Can...
Let’s see how far a man can fly
Without his wax-waned wings
He’ll trace the ground
Long distance round
His path a wrath worn swing
Whose plane is stained into the brain
bleeds into the view for you
takes time and twists then turns
faults bursting out of view
Let’s see how far a man can sink
With all his neckties wet
he’ll shrink and stir
from the whole damned world
to not drink a drop of sweat
he’ll flail and squeeze
dripping doubt for need
And breath his new last breath
down in that dreadful deep
Let’s see how long a man can wait
For time to just stand still
He’ll post and boast
While coals roast him most
Raked over embers and cinder steam
The burn in turn numbs as it comes
To lick and lap the soles on tap
Drunk much from flesh its finds the rest
Until ash is past the knees
Let’s see how long a man can run
Away from fallen fears
He’ll carry on the boots ‘til dawn
Then shrivel up and fawn
From salted wounds of brawn
And orphaned thoughts et all
He’ll pass no baton
And run ever on
Unspoken rat-trapped wheel
Let’s see how much a man can take
the threshold of his soul
What pricks and pins
Can bring his sins
Into an acceptable light
What pain remains imprinted now
Unto his scarred frame
Is riddle racked and slunkered back
A repeat of all the shame
