In The Mind And Marrow - Shai Hulud

But puncture the skin or fracture the bone

The present pain insists we are mortal

Brother

A hammer to the knees disarms even the unassailable

As you live with every stir and exhalation

You are subject to death

Justify this perfection

Disconnection from humanity

A sentient form of heart and bone

Of warmth and thought

And you still break the body

Judgment has failed in the dominant

Warm flesh beaten cold

A bloodless husk lies one shade from physical death

No justify this perfect disconnection from humanity

All of mankind demands to understand what is in your heart

And how the hands become detached from the mind

Dear mortal

We call you to account for the deeds of savagery

You will answer to the living world

Alas

Not an uttered word

Brother

You are in error

What fires the core

What moves the mind

What enables the man

Cancer in the mind and marrow

An unacceptable disorder of cruel decision and shrewd awareness

The living world is burning to treat the affliction

To rip out the cancer

For dear life

No defense will mend a broken bone

No words are healing bleeding wounds

Let yourself bleed if you are to let blood

Brother

You are in error