You were a sacrifice
An offering from the sacred
A voice for a generation
Prophet of liberation
Prophet of yearning
I ride by this river
Feeling subterranean vibrations
This water helps my spirit cry
River tears of absolution and restitution
Black shadow resonates
On the surface of sacred water
Glistening like onyx
A dark mirror for your story
Reflecting the toxicity of your father
Your craft was magic
Your immolation tragic
Verses of searing pain
Manifesting the tantric dialectic
You were in the world but not of it
A voice of the divine
Reverberating with insistent honesty
Summoning rivers of prophecy
Simplicity and complexity
Riptides of emotional chemistry
You bared your soul
You inspired and conspired
Dreaming of transformation
Dreaming of liberation
Yearning for a world of actualized desire
Your awareness assassinated by fentanyl
The scourge of our generation
You were eaten alive by addiction
Claimed by cannibals of desecration
Selfless generosity
To your own detriment
Manifesting tantric prophecy
Like a guardian angel omnipresent
Like you I am an addict
Like you a valkyrie of love and rage
Your destiny so senseless and tragic
Your work a beautiful dystopia of visceral pain
I feel your genius in the present tense
Charismatic fire permeates inside me
I wish I could hold you close
I aspire to resurrect your prophecy
I believe in your power
I believe your spirit still breathes
Emotional chords still pulsate
Your ugly beautiful chronicle does not cease
Your life of glory and tragedy
Your spirit of vulnerability and honesty
Giving voice to collective pain
Shining light on collective shame
While the entourage did lines of coke
You hid in the closet and you cried
Tortured and painfully high
Prophetic genius in your mind
Rivers of shame were roots of addiction
Oceans of pain shaped your convictions
Prophet of yearning: we will manifest your vision
Toxic trauma created your psychic prison
Your legacy lives
Its beauty persistent
Your grandfather’s legacy
Emerging as our revolutionary mission
I see your mother’s fierce love
Yearning to protect you
Your innocence as a child
Rising to resurrect you
In a better world you could have been a survivor
This world didn’t deserve you
But we needed you
You conjure an aquatic inferno
Writhing magma of transcendent desire
In grief I feel anger
I wonder who could have held you closer
You played Russian roulette with your life
Crafting anthems operatic
Truncated by the ferocity of fentanyl
You are a generation’s zeitgeist
Surviving awful things
Destroyed by harsh strobe lights
By corrosive pain deep within
We are left trapped in cycles of blame
Cycles of rage and caustic pain
You live on in this ocean of emotion
Rivers of resistance remember your name
Your name is Gustav
We called you Lil Peep
Your spirit rests in power
Your tortured mind rests in peace
–BYPO PHOENIX c)2023
