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Broken Men

from Exiles by David Benjamin Blower

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As the days turned from weeks into months We learned the language and wept for our sons
Replaced the bandage every setting sun
But we didn't know what to say
So for a while we suffered in silence
Each of us too ashamed to talk about the featureless wasteland where we used to have penises
Until one night on a wednesday evening
A few of us sat around quietly drinking
The laughter soon gave way to weeping
The Spirit drew down on our meeting till each man had his say
And as the dawn broke
And the blue bird spoke
We sat in the sunrise and had a smoke
Broken men with a glimmer of hope
The first Babylonian Eunuch's support group

Broken men
They can never return what they've taken from us
Broken men
They can never tough what we've got in our guts

Like a dead old tree
Or a hollow log
A freak of civilisation that doesn't belong
Like a sheep with its wool shorn off lined up quietly outside the slaughterhouse
No one looks us in the eyes
We say nothing and no one cries
Disregarded with the concubines
Broken bodies and broken lives
Like a desecration of a holy place
A violation of a sacred space
May as well've cut off my face and hung me out to dry
But I defy you flesh and blood and snake
I can't deny where I know you've been
You may take what you may take but the devil can't have what won't be given

Broken men
They can never return what they've taken from us
Broken men
They can never tough what we've got in our guts
Broken men
We can never take back what those monsters stole
Broken men
They can never lay hands on your heart and soul

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from Exiles, released October 22, 2012

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David Benjamin Blower Birmingham, UK

David Benjamin Blower: 6-string writer, poet, theologian and podcaster from Birmingham in the UK.

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