Star Map...

By Hill

On Receiving

Released on February 13, 2021

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PH + WH:

Two escapees and a ship, an always-on signal signals splitting

Inside a well-oiled machine, wind coiled and twisted between pistons

Flows over the wave of a surging mob, then gliding over walls to get distant

Trail of leaves kicked up in its rhythm; we took leave under lights in the prison

Left for a new day’s birth -- propelled by explosions, from smoke we emerge

An offense to the resting inert: the lever’s been pressed down, and sparks thе start of a burn

Metal mesh artificially netting us can’t hold thе fluidity of flesh given its nescience

A sprint to the flint and the fuel’s for the take off…

…Wait pause, refrain in a safe spot, lay low and stay calm

Broken from aged iron, become apparitions who diffuse through barriers and into new environments

The present is our theatre we act live in it

Independence not a question we require it

A pause without calm, rather deep suspension

The end of being penned in, the debris ain’t settling

A chance to hyperventilate and land on our feet

Suddenly disruption advances on peace

A storm surrounded and encroached on in blocks

We poke around, slip through cracks in the rocks

Branch off as lightning, frying a path of nimble defiance

Learn from the past to leave a fire behind us, but keeping a torch to scorch likeness

And flee quick, hold our breath sacred, we freed it…

…We leave this planet, released to freely breeze about the cabin, suspiring

Much higher than old atmosphere’s reach

Gravity no longer compresses my chest -- navigation unleashed

Now that I no longer feel the spotlight’s heat, I can float amongst dots in a sea

Our survival is predicated on what surrounds our arrival

A better day or a rival, a void of information or bed and asylum, we left the light and are blinded

But that’s fine put the flood lights on towards a new path

Light of information illuminates the dark parts of the situation

Homogeneity behind chipping paint in the new home we infiltrating, it’s enraging…

…Pain in the discovery, the law’s spotlight was one thing but we couldn’t duck the sun’s stare

Swapped one star for another thing, suffering is sure

The weight pressing down is completely universal though unequally mature

We must sweep the floor of the dust collecting, expect war

From the seminal singularity; a ball of bright colors, unlike others, and it won’t take five summers

To reach the beach and breach each of your shores

A phoenix from ash on a celestial stampede that will screech through your doors

A comet screaming towards edifice to cause craters

Leads to better shit in the wake of the shaked up, and the liberated endless flows of nature

A storm approaches to lift sediment and layers…

…The looming stare of our all encompassing information void;

Peering over the edge into the static from the massive depths it grabs back at us

A tendril extending to constrict us and end our ambitions

This moment becomes a bend in direction, a loose end-questioning intermission

Schisms are overcome by convergence on decisions

On the swirling vertex of space dust that awaits us -- unnerving repetition… Unnerving repetition…

Imposition re-emerges, concrete seeks to stomp out burning

Can’t keep original flight path or turns when eyes blinded by spotlights returning

The long arm reaching and casting a shadow on chance of succeeding

Needing decision: spin dead hopeless or flip over borders

Need quick roads to slip from the corner

When inhibitors approach us we slipped like slick foxes

Move through fractures and cracks in boxes

Long since accustomed to loopholes and cautions

Use our deliverance to carry us in hyperspeed

Break through space in a life-saving driver’s seat

Jump through the gate, time waits for us as we fly straight evade dust

Engage thrust…

…Breaks hushed, lever snapped forward, commitment to the contingent

Declaration of decimation imminent, a finishing of everything that’s tessellated

Re-ventilate it with a breath that sets blazes, jamming a wrench in machine ready to break

Layer of ice we zoom through, left in our wake as our comet moves straight

Ready to break a stone down to sand and vacate

The point of no return has become a point so small, out of the window I cannot see it at all --

First time feeling strength in a while is when our tensile grip stabilized our fall and survived a trial

The wave that began to surge has raised charge and will break your barge to dirt

This disclosure directed to the directors, shepherds, and the sceptered: ready your weapons…

…And to the rest of em, don’t fall for any preconception

Living transgression doesn’t half step or threaten, but don’t misconcept it

We are prevention, not projection

We will only insurrect not protect

We become exceptions, not give lessons, that creates henchmen

Not a message of hope but a best bet at opportunity

Given as we draw forward, we encounter more ice, a type of freezing can’t ignore, but

When we movin’ we speed quicker than the claws of any heat-draining fixture as we skip stars…

Since our trip start…

Motivated by thick scars…

Pressed by thick bars…

Ain’t no problem just want to get ours...