Earth Cry – Owen Gust

Earth Cry

oWen guSt wants you to go to @themanicmusic on Instagram and then listen to their debut single

my aching core my aching core my aching core, why does no one care for me anymore? i miss the fish that prosper and the birds that soar now

all they want is more.

i am naked and vulnerable for all to see. i am completely assailable. so, they take me down with glee to show me what is unreclaimable: a circle filled with white conferee a sharpened knife to feed the insatiable.

my misplaced denizen my former kin my protector and citizen, my stomach impaled with a lynchpin my rotting body i am living in my face erased with the colour of our skin.

when the land hurt with lack from behind a white man’s back, he was posed like a thief and he had pulled a wreath, and blood pooled from around his teeth.

pools and lakes, that diluted the blood, while my mountain of wealth creaks and aches, driving us down

into the mud.

taken from the hollow tree water that was cherished like gold, the broken sacredness

and owners grieve, the tainting of the of decree

sacred tree.