Someday I Will Tell a Great and Shining Truth - Kalia Mussetter

[Larry Robinson]

Someday I Will Tell a Great and Shining Truth
 
Someday I will tell a great and shining truth
that will buy back all my dignity.
My silver words like coins will drop into the
mouths of my enemies, killing their tongues like ancient
poisons stilled the breasts of  enemy kings, confounding
their long-built case against me.
These words will buy back my soul.
Someday I will tell a great and shining truth, in whose
deep structures will finally be exposed
the war I come from: the war of babies fighting
terrible battles, using weapons unparalleled on any field
against foes disguised as friends,
agents of mass destruction vomiting out of their little
mouths: “I need, I need” they scream,
undoing the universe.
Frenzied flags of terror unfurl all around them, banners
of the war: “Be quiet, be quiet” screams back the valiant
army, meeting bravely the battle.
Fists fly, penises stiffen, juices flow, fingernails furrow—
but babies rally their unending forces,
crying simply out their need, their need, O God, their need,
unrelenting in the fray.
In panic the defending troops deploy their only hope:
they leave.
The terrible enemy is defeated, finally, by silence,
and the world is saved.
Someday I will tell a great and shining truth, and
all my burnt tribe, dragging their blankets behind them,
will enter into my heart once again, making me whole.
 
	- Kalia Mussetter
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