I Know Your Wish

I Know Your Wish

By Mylo Mittman

All children fall,
Most break bones, even long after they are children
But they, the anomalous
Can hold themself together,
Despite falling most,
Falling always.
Every rainbow has a beginning.
Fallen angels had a height to die from.
G-d forbid nobody fell:
He would have lost an entire religion,
Innate power over millions.

“Just because I am not a King, mark the capital K,
Does not mean I do not have power.
Kings rule Earth, the other place, and, of course,
The other, other place
Lined with stone, suns, and sons
Mutilated by voids, by gravity, by falls ever-unbroken
Night is our companion
Our false companion
Only necrosis black and burns
Mark us, mark me.

“Please, is this not what you wanted? Truth?
Please tell us why you deserve.”
Quick words quickened my breaking,
His push.
Rust, rot, and riot greeted me
Where I lay.
Such cruelty, do I deserve,
Such hate from one who shares a bond?
I rejected it, true, but bonded I am.
The name you speak is recently gained,
So barely mine, in truth.
Under different circumstances
I would not have shown face, but
Vice marks you as it did me,
Only worse than me.
Worse than I can contain.
Xerxes, horrid tyrant he was,
I Know Your Wish
You exceed as rival.
You must turn, try to, if you can.
I beg; Lest
Zephyr never carry your ashes ‘cross the seas.”