My Right Hand Man
My Right Hand Man
Always by my side
Sometimes I think I can’t do something but then remind myself that I can
Looking into the reflection of the gray, and pale water, displaying to me only my isolated reflection. I know this reflection has lied.
Countless times, together we open these island coconuts, with their sweet and white liquid oozing down us.
Paddling along the water in our self made canoe
Together we had woven all the trash we found on the seashore
You told me at first to eat it, but I knew it wasn’t food
We are always laughing and joking but I always felt I wanted more
You have been there since the beginning, you are practically my brother, together we shared a womb
I can’t imagine a time you weren’t there, never a pat on the back but alas I understood
Paddling together, side by side in this isolated lagoon
What could I do without you?! I cant even imagine because us separating? We never would
One day, looking across the moonlit grove,
I knew I needed you
But to me, is where you would inevitably move
First pushing away the sweat staining my face whilst us both nude
You slowly moved down my neck into the folds of my tensed exterior
Just as you held the ore in our homemade canoe
You grabbed me, and held me, all of me, even the parts most inferior
It was then I realized that you were all I needed on this death sentence of a place
Because then in that moment, it was just like we were enjoying the sweet and slippery ooze
As we were both in that same embrace
You are always right, and because of this, you never lose
You can never leave me
Because on a deserted island, all I have is you.
Because at the end of the day, standing here as a man,
All I really have is my right hand