Rise up Job

August 26, 2011

If you ever get the suspicion
that you just might be walking
on egg shells
somewhere around
the graveyard of the nearly dead
you might be human
maybe I’m just human

or maybe I sacrificed my sanity
one too many times
and the one I don’t believe in
is out to destroy
whatever fragments
of faith I ever had

but I’m not Job
or his propensity
for letting god walk all over his feet

I don’t take that back

nor can I apologize
for not pulling out the red carpet
to curtsey
every time life steps in
during those brief minutes
when we’re able to catch our breath

because there’s an empire at work
mass-producing superman
that not everybody can be

his image is etched into prison walls
snickering at the ones who couldn’t win

If I’m victorious
thank satan


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