I'm in my bed half warm with the other half as cold as this solemnity you've left me in I have one leg wrapped around the sheets where you formally lied and the other hanging like the pieces of my mangled heart Struggling to maintain equilibrium or tumble past sheets of broken lies into the crevice of my untold truths right under my bed The rain pours as if forcing itself down my rib cage to remind me that I'm alive despite my mangled body in it's contorted position without it's straightener of you The rain it pours yet I can't hear it I hear the silence And I feel you once again feeling my skin from hip bone to the depth of the rivers inside me Running your fingers on my African canvas with your Southern confederate rakes and flags etching yourself onto me Leaving me scarred Until every time I look down at me, I see you Oh the irony The tale of white man leaves his African prey once again.