No Absolutes in Human Suffering

I pulled a dead horse out from under a tarp In my backyard, piece by piece Once proud, once full of strength, she was gold Mostly hair and bones now I dragged a leg around the yard for hours Wearing a path I left it there in the sun, abandoned Like a child's bicycle at the call of a mother Mostly hair and bones now Mostly hair and bones now Mostly hair and bones now

Submitted by SerpentEve — Feb 24, 2026

To prepare the ground, to plant the seeds So many of us will never know the labor and the grit And I'm not afraid of our efficiency And I understand we have invented ourselves out of a job And I imagine Like anything else, our cycle has come around An old womb, our soil is used The noble thing would be to plow it under So we can look forward to socio-economical mass graves This we celebrate and holiday We can attest: native bones make the best fertilizer

Submitted by SerpentEve — Feb 24, 2026

It sure was nice of Jesus to take time away from ignoring Ethnic cleansing genocide and famine bloated children The truth weighs nothing, travel light, be unburdened The truth weighs nothing, travel light, be unburdened The truth weighs nothing, travel light, be unburdened The truth weighs nothing, be unburdened Or regrowing limbs for landmine victims To help you score that touchdown To help you find your keys To help you land that promotion The truth weighs nothing, travel light, be unburdened The truth weighs nothing, travel light, be unburdened The truth weighs nothing, travel light, be unburdened The truth weighs nothing, be unburdened Is it that he can't, or is it that he won't? Wake up, wake the fuck up

Submitted by SerpentEve — Feb 24, 2026

The Earth was warm from the sun You weren't ivory like the movies The dirt stained you, dissolved you Eroded you, revealed you You couldn't escape that Not with your faith Not with all the hope in the world I remember your code, I remember your roots I remember your code, I remember your roots So I kissed you on the teeth and laid with you in the sun And you answered more questions there Than you ever did breathing The dirt dissolved you, eroded you Revealed you, destroyed you Destroyed you, destroyed you Destroyed you, destroyed you

Submitted by SerpentEve — Feb 24, 2026

You have to wade through the dogs The vipers, the preachers, the brands With nothing between you and their sharpened canine teeth Only the skin over your pale ivory skeleton You have to wade through the dogs The vipers, the preachers, the brands They can tear at the flesh, they can blacken tissue They can bleed you, but they can't break the- They can tear at the flesh, they can blacken tissue They can bleed you, but they can't break the bones And when you're through When all that's left is your breath on the air And their howls behind you Raise the child in your arms to the sun To the sun, to the sun Give her light, give her light Give her light, give her the light

Submitted by SerpentEve — Feb 24, 2026

No absolutes in human suffering No absolutes in human suffering No absolutes in human suffering No absolutes in human suffering No absolutes in human suffering No absolutes in human suffering No absolutes in human suffering No absolutes in human suffering No absolutes in human suffering No absolutes in human suffering

Submitted by SerpentEve — Feb 24, 2026

Know your children will know more of the earth than you ever will You should be embarrassed, know your children will Know, fake I can hear them laughing at their history books Know, know Know, know Know, tear down the crown Know, know Tear down the crown Tear down, tear down, tear down, tear down Tear down, tear down, tear down, tear down the crown

Submitted by SerpentEve — Feb 24, 2026

24-hour news hit my face in the dark, I was yours I stood and watched it fall The world markets collapsed (Dawn) I felt it in my guts (Dusk) Kicking like a baby And I can't find a balance between fear and excitement There is truth in history and in this physical world Nations will come and go Empires and ashes We've seen this before Stay calm, do the right thing Do the right thing Do the right thing And when they beg When they ask you for more...

Submitted by SerpentEve — Feb 24, 2026

Poisoned blackened veins Like the roads through the grasses of North America It's an old hand to carry the candle through the dark Praying, shaking Praying and shaking Winter in her blood Panicked, confused Desperation in the flicker of light on the whites of her eyes Moaning, gasping, clutching a screwdriver, stabbing franticly It looks like Ms. America got into the pills again She tripped on some errant talking points And broke her hip on Afghanistan Heavy lies the crown We're not the first and we won't be the last

Submitted by SerpentEve — Feb 24, 2026

Light poured from my chest and every bird had called your name As I drove by a deer carcass Someone had cleanly taken the head from I thought of you, I knew you'd find it full of wonder Someone had desecrated a corpse For a sportless opportunistic skull trophy That alone is some hillbilly shit The bigger picture is that we've lost feeling in our left arm I guess there's no real evidence that we ever had any It's in the worst of us that you'll find the baselines And the indications by which to measure

Submitted by SerpentEve — Feb 24, 2026

It's the same noise every day We walk back and forth Back and forth Back and forth

Submitted by SerpentEve — Feb 24, 2026