Promise of Earth

Count the hours in the sky, a facade of golden hue;
Look! It has been smothered, its throat in your fist,
I was promised the ends of the Earth,
Still, I stand knee-deep in grey forest foliage,
And I call to the heavens as I am swallowed,
And the ticking sun does not show me mercy.
Mother watches and sighs as you drape your body in diamonds and a dream of greed,
She will live out of death’s reach by the skin on her teeth,
X marks the spot and her ribs have cracked, bones tumbling,
Too soon, the boiling sea has become a mausoleum for her skeleton,
And your hands of destruction will soon lie there, too.
And you have ruined my day plans with your path of terror,
Oh, you say, but it is okay, because the sun has been suffocated by the air that you breathe
Out, and never in. Give, and never take;
But you take the stars and squash them between your palms,
You take the sea and drink like you are a God,
You lick your way through Mother’s home, you are a fire fiend.
I was promised every corner of the Earth, 
Instead, I am banished to perish upon this hearth.