Thursday, April 16, 2020

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

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