in response to ATO’s Monster and HEAVEN
If I had been given
a dream
in which I could see this sin gaining fruition.
Adam never had the foresight —
I was looking for a life in the limelight
that made me more than I could realize.
I was one, I was the prophesied.
But violence never gave me the edge,
I had the world in my grasp but left
when I tried to move between spaces, stretch
like the ghost in the shadows, in life’s beautiful test.
The dream took the wind from my sails
and added them to her own
collections of the unknown.
She gave me a life,
a means for purpose.
Adam and his kith
never made themselves worth it.
