LA SIRÉNE

Lysz Flo

 

 

I - ocean goddess 

Child of eternal blackness

Grant you gifts of breath bubbles 

to seep into unworthy lungs 

 

Each scale,

composed of dying angry ancestral tears 

 

I — the daughter of all of the Vodoun

/they/ couldn’t drown out of us.

 

Throwing /us/ overboard 

Fatuous minds

to disbelieve 

we be creatures  

— untouched & made eternal by magic

we 

— creators of civilizations 

where /they/ cannot taint the waters with their ineptitude. 

 

A side eye keeps you 

Gasping 

Clawing 

for an air that ceases 

under thick waves 

 

Grandiose mortal 

Faltering god 

Pompous pretender 

  

They always recoil 

When my smile becomes 

Hunger ridden 

My shark fang      sharpens

 

accountability and karma 

becomes a hand over their throat 

 

as I coax my heart shards 

from their appeased 

unending bellies 

 

I

 

Watch each droplet 

                                      F

A

L

L 

become the fire burning their 

lungs 

 

maniacal laughter vibrates 

coast to coast 

For some 

there is forgiveness 

For me 

my reverie is 

revenge

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Lysz Flo is an AfroCaribbean Latinx, polyglot, spoken word artist, indie author, generative workshop facilitator, member of The Estuary Collective, and podcast host of Creatively Exposed and Voodoonauts Summer 2020 Fellow. She released her poetry novel Soliloquy of an Ice Queen, March 2020. Her poems can be found in Hellebore, Skin Coloured Mag, Digging Press and various anthologies. Online Crystal and Spiritual wellness shop owner at Astrolyszics.com