20171216 - I Surrender

from The Song Diary II by Paleo

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Take your summer legions,
send them to my shores.
Invade me from all directions
until I can take no more,
and I fly my whitest flag
my olive branch is broken
all my guns are underwater
all my gates are open

I surrender
but I will never give up.
I will keep drinking the dawn
to the last broken cup.

The syringe of me weeps
tears in your cathedral.
Winter garden and arcades
in the blackout of other people
Having purpose is a curse.
It’s as arbitrary as a name.
Love may be the kindest war,
but it’s war all the same.

I surrender
but I will never give up.
I will keep drinking the dawn
to the last broken cup.

So take your armies and trains
while my churches still burn
with the stiff drink of you,
like a mirror, I never learn
the wordless names you called me,
the paper tiger smiles,
keys too worn to work,
another paper to file.

I surrender
but I will never give up.
I will keep drinking the dawn
to the last broken cup.

When we jumped from the airplanes
through the clouds of our pain
and pulled the chutes too late
and fell in love slash insane,
a couple of bruised fruit,
a couple of tears held in,
a white elephant of strangers
in the shadow of Mount Elden.

I surrender
but I will never give up.
I will keep drinking the dawn
to the last broken cup.

You were a doll always posed
on the bed I was lost under
with a box of old photos,
like lightning with no thunder.
Someday we’ll weirdly die
in beds with husbands or wives
and even then we’ll do so clutching
our guns and our knives.

I surrender
but I will never give up.
I will keep drinking the dawn
to the last broken cup.

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from The Song Diary II, released April 15, 2018

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