Deliverance
Is a towering brute
The sharpest pillar
I aspire to claim

Yet resolve
Never fully blossoms
From the cavernous wounds
I shield each day

I am doomed to simmer
Beneath, the frothing tide
Instilled
With ghostly remorse

Forever they’ll loom
Boldened by fear
By the timidness
I foolishly carry

Before slopes of ivory
I’ll forevermore shudder
Swollen
In the binds of privilege