Slave Girl From China

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Waters Ebbed From My Face
My Name Lay Silver
Secure Around My Neck.

Tears Have Swept Me to America
Floating Free From the Chains
That Once Bound My Hands and Feet
But Little Did I Know
That Master Would Not Be My Name




God Hooked a Girl From The Seas.
He Promised Her a Castle.
He Promised Her the Heavens.
He Promised to Set Her Free.

He, My God, Felt Me,
Touched Me, Loved Me
But Would Not Let Go.

Whips Circled Around My Wrists
And Ankles Like Sly Boas
As Master Became His Name.




Master Taught Me to Starve,
To Live Off Loneliness,
To Eat Emptiness.

Master Taught Me to Cry Only Dry Tears
With a Kiss in One Hand
And a Slap in Another.

I Learned to Feast on Blood,
To Kill or Be Killed.

Master Taught Me to Fly
As My Weight Pulled
Painfully Upon My Ear.

I Learned to Glide
As My Spirit Shattered
A Wall of Reflectionless Mirrors.

I Learned to Crawl and Beg
As a Battered Dog Whimpering For Death.

I Lay ...
As a Cockroach Unable to Run
Its Millions of Legs Reaching Towards Nothing.

A Monster Looks Back
Through Abysmal Eyes
Touched By a Cannibal's Feast
And a Masochist's Love.

Silent, Silent.
He Will Love Me
Despite My Deformity.



OBEY.
I Did, I Did Not.
OBEY.
My Legs Kicked on Through the Nothingness.
OBEY.
Puppet Springs Forced Me Still.
Thank You, Master.

I am Air.
I am Wind.
I am.

Xia Shou Wu Qing.
Death Without Love.
Xia Shou Wu Qing.
Breath Without Life.
Xia Shou Wu Qing.
Life Without Life.


I Was Leda, Yet Coming
With Snow Wings Spread.
My Strings Split
As She Danced Them Like a Harp's.

Blossoming From the Ruin,
I Was the Blind Child Being Lead Into a Green Valley.
I Was the Babe Being Drawn From Love's River's.
Blessed, Named, Free.

I Kill You, Brown Grass.
I Kill You, Dark Sky.
I Kill Myself and HE Dies.

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We each have our own stories to tell ... for even within the heart of an angel, there is still a song of woe ...