Standing Here

Immortalist//pagan poem

I've been standing here

since you ran outta breath

laid down to rest

and practiced for death,

Been standing here since

your nap began

all night long

pen in hand

Just standin here, waiting

scribbling verses

growing impatient

I've been standing here

since before you were jaded,

before you had that cough

or even knew what you hated,

since before your technicolor dreams

were tattered and faded,

we all stood so fresh
in the beginning,
but then you learned that losing
was easier than winning,
and stooped to answer
your masters' call
for the inmates to come
and build their walls

against the spring,

and against the fall,

but I was standing here
outside it all

answering the summer's call,

just standing here endlessly

and without fail

burning bright

as the fires of Bael

sundrenched and wild

as a tranced out pagan

invokin' the gods

by defiantly sayin

'FOOLISH MORTALS

HAVE SOME SELF WORTH
DESTROYING YOUR BODIES

IS DESTROYING THE EARTH

AND ALL O THAT BULL S**T

THAT YOU'RE CONSUMIN'

IS THE HEADWATERS
OF GLOBAL POLLUTION

SO IF YOU MUST BE A LANDFILL

OF INDUSTRIAL WASTE

PLEASE QUIT LEAVING YOUR ANATOMY

ALL OVER THE PLACE.'

...And, I'll still be standing here

a human fortress

as your empire dissolves

back into the forest

gettin' my settle down

til those plastic walls crumble

standing triumphantly

amongst the rubble,

as the tyrants on their pedestals
finally fall
and the congressmen starve
in their concrete halls,
I'll be standing here
unabated
for I am not insured
nor educated,
and I will not be tamed
or sedated
cuz I'm standin' here
wide awake
witnessing all
your bodies can take,
and after the s**t
I watch you guys survive
I don't see any reason
that I should ever die,

so I'll just be standin' here
axis mundi
winkin' at you with my third eye
hanging fast, for nine long moons
puking for the sacred runes,
I tried, I tried,
to warn you dude,
but you just stood there
looking dumb,
and now see what you've f*****g done?
You ate all the forests
and blocked out the sun
with your factory mufflers
all smoking like guns.

But I'll be standing here
way over there
when ever you decide to care
enough to end
this long nightmare,
I'll be standing here,
never swaying
as I am politely saying,

"sorry folks,

for the shake up,

but if you get a little

quicker on the take up

I'll be standing right here

when you wake up."