Are We The Flood?

from Studies by Ben Osborn

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I wake up tonight
the first time that I can write
in weeks
heard the crash of waves
against the timber frame
almost the same
as your heartbeat
we'll be saved
if the waves
rise up over the land
we'll build our nest on the chimney
out of driftwood & crushed aluminium cans
worn soft by the raging sea
& will it be
that the sea will rise over this town?
& will it be
that the buildings will all be torn down?
will it be
that the waves will crash over the ground?
& is there a voice that sings out of the sound?
& are we the drowned
or are the flood?
& will it be
that the trees are a funeral pyre?
& the forest consumed
by the plumes rising hire?
& it poisons the air
spinning into the gyre?
& we're framed
by the flames of our faded empire?
& are we the fire
or are the flood?
I could sing
for the things that we've lost in the mud
I could cry
for the lies that they're telling to us
for the blindness that bleeds
& that laughs at our love
& are we the blood
or are we the flood?

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from Studies, released May 20, 2022

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“studies” EP out 20th of May

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