Simulation Swarm

By Mavis Hall

Released on November 12, 2023

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I tried to tell you

I didn't know how to stay

You believe she can see through

Cutting at the silent clay

A relief, beckon deep blue

Fettered in the magnet sun

Eat the gun as it feeds you

Spitting up the oxygen

Once again

Once again

Once again, empty horses

Gallop through the violet door

Follow red, crooked courses

Shadows on the moonlit floor

O my stars, winged creatures

Gathering in silken height

Like the last human teachers

Once again, we must bleed new

Even as the hours shake

Crystal blood like a dream true

A ripple in the wound and wake

I believe, you believe, too

That you are the river of light that I love

That I cling to in the belly of the empty night

From the 31st floor of the simulation swarm

With the drone of fluorescence

Flicker, fever, fill the form

With a warm gush, and I wanna touch

Like we never could before

I'd fly to you tomorrow, I'm not fighting in this war

I wanna drop my arms and take your arms

And walk you to the shore

I remember building an energy shield

In your room, like a temple

Swallows in the windless field

Very thin, with your mother

Tall as a pale green tree

Very wild, bright as winter

Rising with a prism key

And a child to deliver

Tangled in the blood and vine

Is the first little angel

Little Andy, soft in your newborn skin

Only one, little Andy, will you return again?

I believe we can renew

And you could be my brother

Once again, fall asleep with our backs against each other

I believe, you believe, too

That you are the river of light that I love

That I cling to in the belly of the empty night

From the 31st floor of the simulation swarm

With the drone of fluorescence

Flicker, fever, fill the form

With a warm gush, and I wanna touch

Like we never could before

I'd fly to you tomorrow, I'm not fighting in this war

I wanna drop my arms and take your arms

And walk you to the shore

I wanna drop my arms and take your arms

And walk you to the shore

(Hmmmmm)