SOFT [explicit] from ECHOES EP by Driftwood Quintet, Sean Avery Medlin

couldn’t be soft /
squish equals con
quested bodypart /
man is metal alloy
boy is smelted glob
fresh on anvil top /
hammer drop spark
still a scar / on our
sides / police hand
guns raised in our
eyes / death threats
since we survived
the shit eating
hijacking bowels
of a ship / long ride
stolen shoreside /

couldn’t be alive
how homelands are
had to be tough /
slave afterlife arc /
reverse time to find
a me without callous /
not masc or femme /
unbound to work caste
law / who were we
before we claimed
a colonizer god ?
my mirror shows black
my dream shows stars /
self-love this & self-love
that / i work to admit
the softest parts are black* /

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