Redemption
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Filled, I am, with impulses
  you would not understand
  compulsions to behaviors
  that draw me from the sand
  that buries bones,
  forgotten yearnings clawing
  for my skull to join them in the tomb.

Three million suns have come and gone
  and still the flesh
  flashing blue bright as fire
  splashing silver white as life
  weaves, extrudes, fresh
  a primordial mesh
  caressing across time in the womb.

I lift my head through the earth
  feeds me a mouth of dust
  falls into my eyes blink
  the placental membrane back
  heave through the slick moan
  and wail at the cold, pale moon,
  yearn forward and burst forth
  quivering slime from the gloom.

At last to rise and stand!
  naked dry in the desert sun
  landscape desolate from neglect
  I wished upon the earth and
  behold! the earth was born,
  birthed me, died, and now I
  an oasis carve to reclaim it from doom!