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Remember Me for Why I Stand, Not Since I Fall
All I want is a revolution
A new sky where the stars will shine upon my skin
But even healing splits within the love above
I feel it when I float on my pride
The barrel smokes from the depths below
And I draw the sheets over my eyes
For all the blood spilled
Will it have tainted my soul before I go?
Will I harrow in the gloom because I didn't quit?
Will I find myself alone in the streets I have relieved?
Despite the flag that now flies high
Despite the breath that breathes easy from a lifted stone
Sin soaks the celebratory gin as well as the newly started throne
Is my achievement any less of a win?
All I want is a revolution
My legs tremble and my heart pounds
Its as if I am a coin, of silver, of gold
Flipped and cast to rattle on the ground
Do I deserve this mental wavering,
That was birthed from my ideals of congregation not solitude
Did I not transmute my original desire to change your mind
I'm sorry it seems we must always replicate a previous design
Of hand and sword
Not hand and hand
And if I go down now, I don't mind,
Hopefully, my predecessors will fly high in the wind
nor murder nor hell can tame my tapestry
For its stitches are made not of string but of spirit
That of a design that will only die at eternity's last breath
I have a feeling I breathe mine
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This is my second piece based on another's work of art, this time "The Death of Marat" by Jacques-Louis David. One of the most emotionally ominous paintings I feel in existence, painted during a rebellious time during France, the painting's backstory plus its beauty inspired my poem.