Safer at Home

A sickness has laid bare

the emptiness of passion

Hunkered down we are nothing but machines

that eat and drink and wait

for our old lives to return.

And people are dying every day

but we don't know them, so it feels distant

Remember when we were kids

and the ground was hot lava

again as adults, the streets and doors and debit card keypads

are hot lava

We wish we had all the things we took for granted

but I was wasting my life

well before it was stripped from me

I read a message today 

from ten years ago

from I girl I thought I was in love with

about how I thought things were finally changing for me

My whole life felt like an opportunity

and when I closed the chat window

I felt embarrassed

and empty

I was a mess

a sad, awkward mess

that nobody could get close to

The universe is accelerating apart and every moment we get further from each other 

faster than the speed of causality

soon we won't see each other

as our light shifts red and out of existence 

permanently