Uprising – Featuring Callum McLaughlin
I was lucky enough to get to co-write a poem with the very talented Johnny Ojanpera. It was a pleasure to work with him and I hope you enjoy what we came up with.
Originally posted on johnny ojanpera:
Prison of flesh and blood, bars of broken bone
Long forgotten whispers flow on tainted blood
In with the tide as dawn incites the memories
The world battered, every dot of poison creeps in
Drifting now in the dull ache of a barren dusk
A former light, the feast for toxic tongues
Open eyed, thirsty, they listen as if drawn
By a lie so believable, fiction surreal
The��melancholy afterglow, concealed from lifeless eyes
Unbearable burdens, born of vicious verse
Will our verse become as their raucous cries?
This biting back seems the only hope
To drown out the egos driving this inferno ship
Flaming yet, they will then carry the bonds
At peace with restless demons, eternal in their dance
Better orchestras of languid sorrow than an absence of pith
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For I have grown unsinkable; stubborn in defiance
Rising from ashes with scars veiled by skin
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