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God's Own Island

by Ortega Fuerte

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Deep in a forest of jade there’s a miserable pool;
The water tastes just like the names that they called you in school.
You see your reflection and panic, run back to the shore--
You’ve never accepted an honest assessment before.

The blue of the trees in the morning filled you with fright.
The din of the stars kept you up ‘til you noticed their light
The crickets were not like the ones that you hear in the night

God’s own island
God’s own island
God’s own island

Back in the city we fought over each scrap of light.
We slept with each others' emergencies, petty and trite
But deep in the valves of our hearts we developed a beast.
And all it could eat was our hate, so its power increased.

I worked for ten years in a plant, manufactured advice
That you’d take in the form of pill and on dismal days, twice.
But i’m glad that we’re here where addictions are helpful and nice

On God’s own island.

I’m not really sure what a poet would make of this place;
And back where I come from most poets expire in the chase.
I don’t really know if the people I work with would care
To know if they’re ugly or wrong or in need of repair--

But every third Sunday, a sound resonates from the woods;
A sound never heard in the city of markets and goods.
It doesn’t seem pressured in making itself understood.

On God’s own island
God’s own island

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released March 5, 2016

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Ortega Fuerte Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Ortega Fuerte are a group of songwriters and multi-instrumentalists founded in 2003 by core member Hugo Grayling and often including the contributions of Air Anchor's Chris Rohlf.

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