this energy is a miracle
i’ve got your bare ass tucked against me and there’s a cat on my hip sleeping
do you remember the thing that happened that put a bookmark in the darkness?
and the people we have surrounded ourselves with since then are flashlights onto that page
and the tent swings wildly between mystical childhood memory and death camp nightmare
the glass of water on the nightstand has been there awhile
but it’s still water and i could still drown in that
if i needed to
it’s dark and hot and the oscillating fan sounds like purgatory
and the closet shadows look like souls
and the way we are stuck in this simple solution is all i can wish for
the wine bottle on the dresser has been there awhile
but it’s still wine and i could still drown in that
if i wanted to
i don’t need to tell you that the ladder out of here has been dismantled
maybe the parts are somewhere
but they are quickly dissolving
into the thin air
i need to tell you that i’ve just been pretending i have an answer
to keep everyone from panicing
as that wouldn’t help anything
as this centered calm is a thing
that people have come to expect
realizing the depth of the disaster is pointless
and might wake up the cat
and that might upset the balance
we’ve constructed here
