Poem: Chaos

Thrown into the chaos, I did not fall—I scattered. Edges of me caught on sharp hours,on the teeth of noise,on the wild machinery of everything happening at once. Time lost its spine.Moments dripped sideways,pooling at my feet like broken glass reflectionsof a sky that couldn’t decide what it was. There were voices—not speaking, but colliding,like … Continue reading Poem: Chaos

Poem: Why Do We Have to Live This Way?

Why do we have to live this way—counting hours like borrowed change,measuring worth in numbersthat never remember our names? Why do mornings arrive already tired,dragging yesterday behind their eyes,while we lace up our thoughtsinto shoes that don’t fit our lives? We build days out of “have to,”stack them tall like fragile towers,and call it living—this … Continue reading Poem: Why Do We Have to Live This Way?