Emptiness Beneath the Great Emptiness

All the wanting in the world
Won’t bring your god to life
Your weightless words are swept away
And I don’t think anyone noticed
I used to hope you’d just be extraneous
But now I don’t even hope
Everything you’ve ever said
Every hatred, every sleight of hand
Sees you fade out to irrelevance
So I guess thank God for that
We could happily burn the lot
As a promise
For every childhood destroyed
Every woman shamed
Let the fires burn as a signal
Let the fires burn as a signal
Let the fires burn as a signal that
Our community won’t fail to protect them again
All this destruction will be avenged
You have delighted in harsh decisions
But it was really never a risk
Because you would never feel
The consequences!
I’m sick of the same white male excuses
For those gross white male abusers
Every hatred, every sleight of hand
Sees you fade out to irrelevance
So I guess thank God for that