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burn
they burned me, and spurned me,
witch and her wares
cast me apart with their self-righteous stares
they call me a moth to their smoldering heat
say the brute deserves the rotten gray meat
“cast your spells, wiccan!” they hoot with a sneer
“call down the fierce rain to save from fates near!”
i stand and i burn, hot scorn in my chest
and hold to the wind drawn down from the west
they strike up a match, i breathe in the air
the last clean gulp of sweet dew, im aware
i swallow poison, let it wash my lungs
let flames lick my feet, a lashing of tongues
i dare close my eyes? i dare stay aware?
to watch the sun judge with fiery glare?
i bask in its anger, its fury and ire
i perish myself to spurn the liar
as i melt together with fiber and wood
and fall into ashes to sleep where i stood
i do not win, do not triumph— i fall;
my victory is in my standing at all.
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