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By Emmanuel Williams

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I will take my pain

Adore all shame

Take all blame

All in the name

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With my steps forward

I take one back

I am guilty of loving it

My evil lacks not

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There is nowhere to run

Let the darknesses come

Lightning pierce the sky

A burden, I cry

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For your pleasure, kill me now

So I may bleed, that I might scream

Kill me now, that I may see…

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Be ruthless with me

And cruel to me

Seek your own interest

Despite much my protest

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Tear me apart

Ignore my art

For I do express woe

Such you may not know

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Fight me, bite me

Defeat me, mistreat me

Forsake me, debate me

Subdue me, undo me

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There’s nothing I can do

But find pleasure in these shadows

None to say

But that I shall be erased…

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If you care for me

Do not stop your treatment

If you love me

Keep me down trodden more

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I cannot endure the pleasure of this loss

For where it ends, rejoice I do not

I accept my fate

I will not run away

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When you slap my face, I will lick your fingers

Mop the blood on my hands and my knees

Nor will poets recount

For will to retreat

At the mess we have come to believe…

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