Put everything in the fire.
See what burns
and what remains.
That’s how you get left
with only bones
and stones for graves.
Build a wall
to save the garden.
Build three more
and make a prison.
You can still see the sky,
but you can’t fly,
or climb your fears
and what you’ve made of them.
It’s never been so simple.
it’s never been so hard.
Swimming is easy.
So, why do so many drown?
Life isn’t complicated,
just breathe and hang around.
We grow up walking early.
So, why do so many fall down?
There’s no end to the quandary,
a puzzle we can’t solve,
but we must resolve
that this world
doesn’t make
unsolvable puzzles
of us.
Today is the same.
The pain doesn’t change.
The sunrise will come
and we’ll be undone,
just like yesterday.
I’ll pull a thread
that unweaves your robes
and we’ll both be naked,
fading, breaking,
cold, and exposed.
Then,
you’ll cover me
and I’ll sell my skin
to cover you.
Who are we?
Just what we do.
This world is full
of fake people
and fading places.
Fake memories,
fake words,
and false faces.
But, you are true.
You exist, I’m aware,
and you feel the same
as I do;
lonely and scared.
HG – 2021
