Petrichor On Mars

Artwork by Jason Kelly

LYRICS:

You are thunder, you are lightning
Your heavy rain falls on deserts kindly
I am a vulture - your bones excite me
My claws arrested decaying timing
Your vision's barren, my vision's stormy
You look behind you but stand before me
So I am arid and you're short of warning
Of the lagoons that your clouds are forming

All the ways that I perform
I'm only after your applause
You embellish all my thoughts
You have mine, do I have yours?
In this never-ending heat
Part my lips upon your sea
Searching your silence deep
For the sound that lets me sleep

Your abnegation it slowly starves me
I stalk the carcass my heart is guarding
Forced acclimation brings with it scarring
From scorched skyline to the earth it's harming
In each desperate rumble, I hear your heartbeat
Between a hard place, I hear it carving
Sweet cries of nothing, lost and departing
And my care for carry-on, it is quite alarming
And my care for carrion, it is quite alarming

Atacama
Take my body
Feed the sands she
Starved upon me
Use my flesh to
Paint a mirage
That holds the truth of
Petrichor on Mars

I'm not a vulture, I am a microbe
Your waters drown me