Sink Me In The River

-Sink Me In The River-
by Keaton Foster


Sink me in the river
Place a stone
Upon my bones
Fill my guts
With bits and stuff
Make it heavy
Burdensome
Impossible to lift
Impossible to get
Out from under
Carve out my brain
Just throw it away
It's been nothing to me
But an absolute waste
Fill my cranium
With hand written poems
Ones penned by the masters
Eternal bliss through
Inspirational lapses
Will be both
My heaven and hell
Rip out my jealous heart
Feed it to a wild animal
Any one will do
Replace it with
A solid piece of glass
Make sure the edges
Are brutally sharp
Make sure the color is clear
Perfectly see through
If you can manage that
Than little will have changed
And much
Will be exactly the same
Sink me in the river
The one by my home
The one that I use to swim in
Back when I was innocent
Back before I became
So heavy and jaded
So unbearable to the living
May my mother come to the shore
May my father stand next to her
I have not seen either of them
In nearly two decades
They have not seen each other
In just as long
Our last words to each other
Were the worst possible
I don't want to go
Unless I know that they
Somehow found a way
Reconciliation
It seems is all that I have
All that I could ever hope
In life it was never possible
I'd like to think that in death
All things can somehow be
Made possible
Invite a man of God
Anyone of any faith will do
I'm not sure if they will come
But if you could please
Speak upon my behalf
Say that I always tried
Even if it's a lie
Tell them that my soul
Has no identifiable home
And without them it won't
That should spike their interest
Maybe even force their participation
Sink me in the river
Close to the shore
Or way out there
In the deepest depths
Either matters none
If you have done
All that I've said
Then my precious friend
I will stay exactly where
It is you have placed me
Exactly where it is
That I have always belonged...


Sink Me In The River
Written by Keaton Foster Copyright 2014.