Jinba Ittai - ZAO

I was born behind these eyes

Sewn into this skin

One with the flesh machine I’m embedded in

I hold my children’s breath

Feel their mother’s pain

Share my brother’s blood

Within my sister’s veins

Cry my mother’s tears

Through my father’s eyes

Tethered to this realm

In consciousness' disguise

A promise unspoken, for it could never be kept

Offering passages of safety so the host won’t disconnect

Yet the mouths of our graves sing songs of unknown places

And laugh as we struggle to escape

I have lived behind these eyes

Existed in this skin

Defined by the flesh machine I’m embedded in

The mouths of our graves call these bodies home

I will die behind these eyes

Shed away this skin

Detach from the flesh machine I was embedded in

Separate perception conscious separates