A people
Raised on lies
Won't be bothered
By a couple more.

Until you found
Your legs, for years,
I carried you,
And then you ran away —
Don't pretend
You did not use me.

Waiting for the sun,
Behind the clouds
Naught but blue.

Bleeding constants,
Lost our way —
Were it real
It would not ever
Change.

Warmer days
Post cold war —
Can you feel
The chill
Sink in again?

Out of bounds
Within expectations,
Sliding scales of
Acceptable deviation —
Outliers became
The new normal, somehow.

Clashing fates,
To hate and be hated,
To hurt and be hurt,
To lose and get lost —
Costs be damned,
We’ll see this through
Our way.
Righteous or not.

Scream into the silence,
That the pain we drag behind us,
The hardship that defined us,
May never rise again.

Due diligence
Neglected —
Opinions, perspectives,
Cemented
In the absence of facts.

Diversity,
Our segregation,
Placing weight
On all we're not —
Celebrate all we share,
Not what sets us apart.

Consciousness, a fantasy
Projected on the haze —
Illusions sent to navigate,
Aided to abide our days
Traveling
The mortal maze.

All ducks aligned,
All stories straight —
All of it mine,
None of it fate.

Willful sink
The bleakest truths
To depths ignored,
But not forgotten.

Tomorrow, close enough
To make us believe
That we can plan as far
As we think we can see.

Gimme heart,
Soul music,
Life's rhythm
Hiding from the algorithm,
Out of spotlight
On the B-side of Spotify —
Tunes that make even
Time itself stop and listen
For a minute or
Two, three, four,
Before dancing us by.

Once upon a time
We’d thought it
Signs heralding
The end times —
A comet,
A second moon,
Global northern lights.
Now,
We just look up,
And smile each night.

Arrogant and ignorant
Reaching for the light,
We merely cracked the clouds
Trying to break the sky.

Uncharted,
Spores sprouting
Into the unfamiliar —
The past a map
Obsolete
For what lies ahead.

A character, an outlier,
A truth too far removed
From comfortable —
Call it what you will,
The problem
Isn't me.

Doubt, the entropy,
Our pillar of uncertainty,
Always there to remind us —
Nothing ever stays the same.