How long will it take
With the rise of AI
For humanity to fail
The Turing test?

Post-war peace,
Let's be friends —
Take my side
And promise me
Another's land.

Hopes for a doomed tomorrow,
Finger painted with my tears —
I can still picture it, but come dawn,
The canvas will seem blank,
Even to me.

Lives in sound and word,
Verses sang towards the chorus —
A cacophony, a canon
Looping back while racing forward
To crescendo.

The hell.
Soldiers of a shared identity?
Fuck your culture,
And for that matter,
Fuck mine as well —
Instead, let's ask ourselves,
What makes you you,
What makes me me,
Beyond character vultures
And stock personalities,
Breaking
The hereditary us?

Furious silence —
Fire unmutes,
Behind frosted eyes.

Martyr me, insinuate,
Pad my sins,
Make them larger than life —
Give the world something
To remember me by.

Oh, the memory of you,
The many tiny trails
Across my heart —
Of kitten paws and puppy love —
Now firmly crushed
Beneath your boot print.
You taught me everything
Love is not.

Rockstar, diva, PrimaDonna,
Look beyond your spotlight.
Your world,
Smoke and mirrors,
It's a stage —
All props, all fake.
You're not all that,
No more than a product we were
Made to buy.
Industry made you the lie.

Life's not fair,
That's just it —
Deserving
Means jack shit.

You're lost, samaritan,
Unwanted here.
Is it your heart
Or you
That's in the wrong place?

My anchor, my rock,
Keeping me down,
Holding me back —
I love you.

Now all your suffering is lost,
Only the hole is left behind,
An emptiness, too great to fill.
Now that the hands of time have stopped,
There is nothing left but memories
And their ever mounting costs.

Nature gaped, shaked of the dust.
Unleashed in a blinding fury,
Silenced with a thundering roar —
Life rained down,
Raging, screaming;
Rise, drink up,rejoice,
Summer is no more!
Thus began the fall.

Adoration on a timer,
Antipathy on repeat —
Capricious herd opinion.
What you see,
It isn't me.

Look both ways
Before crossing this street —
Art's a conversation,
Not a monologue.

Pheromone radio,
Dials spinning like crazy
Whenever we meet —
Mutual we linger,
Reluctant to resume
Our separate somedays.

Individuality in color-coded graphs,
Freeform exercises
Within cultivated norms —
Choose your part and play along.

With age
Comes frailty
Comes fear —
Less comfortable
The longer we're here.

All but memories has sunken
Far below the waterline —
See it wash away
Through clouded eyes.