My mind still speaks of there and this
Of hers and hims and thems and thens
Other minds and mines and times when rhymes
Could barely speak or breathe for us
And our hearts still ring of stars and too
The colors of blues, greens n’ hues
Purples paint old and new moons
Time that bled and dined us
We have a book that speaks of this dining
But mountains of letters to recite this entwining
Of fear, a murder reaped in declining
Of brethren and all who have loved us
They still will speak of all that is lost
Without a breath of the past's deep cost
Without an eye for how ancient the boss
An ear for those who have told us
Told us long and far and wide
And deep so deep my veins can’t hide
Can’t hide, can’t hide, no we can’t hide
How long this train has wrecked us
We must come out and reckon so
Seeds of pain for years we’ve sewed
Eons of death and wrath we’ve rowed
On each other, and thus have ended us
But my mind shall think of they and them
And her and it and she and hims
Spoken and not, tears they’ve brimmed
As they shout “you can never define us”
And my mind will wrap to sleep in warmth
For even as bloody history swarms
Across our memory, in droughts of scorn
My mind will call for loving us
And her breath still shows in winter’s tears
And their eyes still sparkle in summer’s fears
But their blood will thrive amongst wintry years
That in loving cold laughs reminded us
You and I will through shake and burn
And might through fires, and despite our yearn
From they and them and her will learn
This internal, they can never define us
