Odysseus
by Michael Brookbank
Fill your ears with wax
And don't listen to a word I say
Tie me down to the mast
A desperate man would do anything to get his way
And as I listen as the wind is pushed
Out from the lungs beneath their breasts
The sound moves throughout my body rushed
From the pounding heart under my chest
The sirens' song has me begging for more
Men, can't you see this love? Please untie me
We can pass these rocks and make it to shore
But they only ignored me and explained quite simply
"Love is such a beautiful sound
But to be mistaken can leave a man drowned"
That last line is killer. Literally.
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