My hand

Held to the glare of this burnt impasse

Yours

Necessarily on the other side of some sickly meta xis

You're stopped in stasis

Matched with mine

I'll quantify time with meter

With rhyme to calculate a way to prove that you are alive

Isolated

Trapped between a picture of you now stained on the street

Oh mother

Teach me how to die

In your shadow I saw to a distant future

Your life was only a nominal fee

Singing the sound of silence

Signaling the end

They took your life

Mother

As a pretense to pretend

The hand that feeds us sat you down

Covered my eyes

Thrusted the styli

Retraced the timeline to call it suicide

Will you wait for me

Death was the

Our lives framed in refrain

Softly we sing notes better sung by our dead

I'd rather sleep and see you soon than die alone in the wake of this nuclear catastrophe

We were meant to create

You spoke us out of nothing

Out of the chaos we've caused

Naked we came

Shadows we leave

Salt of the earthpreserve their songs

Light of the worldburn out the shadows

Infinite echoes of stifled screams the abyss you've created will ever stare back into me