Affable Misery

Beans and bones will sprout from my mouth

Long before i lay aside our keys

If i send your skin off to the stream

Will my river still run within

Will my sailboat glide on slowly

Until I'm vapor among the clouds

Will i gather dust beneath your soles

While the bell calls for you aloud 

A gathering has come to witness me

Upon a public stage I stand to learn

Whether I am bound for glory

Or the misery-laden rope of the gallows

Has the course been fouled beyond repair

For I was the shoe fitted to this jest

The iron that forged it at its finest

What wrong have I done

To be made to stand on nothing

The earth withdrew beneath my feet

An affable sight for those below

This beautiful certainty has made my eyes swell

Thunder spills from them, pouring out what remains of me

The cost of a moment's ascension was too dear a price to pay