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What If We Stayed?
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Knoxville, you made us see magic
In a knotted cathedral of trees
Meandering down to the keyhole
My lover, our child, and me
And you taught us to weep with abandon
As you brutalized tents without care
Making progress a tokenized term without meaning
And we threw our hands in the air
I stay up at night and I day dream of leaving
It honestly feels like the only way
But there’s one dream I wonder is worth still believing
What if we stayed?
What if we stayed?
I’m not honestly sure we belong here
Don’t know if there’s good we can do
Sometimes I believe that our hands are all tied
To a system that ravages me and you
But what if this city did love us?
What if we didn’t have to move away?
What if we rooted into this old earth
That has cradled us- what if we stayed?
We both lay awake browsing houses and think
If this town felt like ours, we would be less afraid
And we write lists of cities that could steal our heart but, Knoxville…
What if we stayed?
What if we stayed?
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Adeem the Artist Tennessee
Adeem is a seventh-generation Carolinian, a makeshift poet, singer-songwriter, storyteller, and blue-collar Artist.
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