COEXISTENCE

We are long overdue when it comes to looking at the stars.

Some of them long gone by the time the radiance of their light reaches us.

 It feels more and more like all our scattered bits of hope at midst the darkness is one big lie,

a mockery to our perpetual laggard and impotence in things beyond our grasp.                                                                                                                
         But I’ve long learned to be okay with that              
                                                                                                                  

  because everyone knows the world makes fools of us all.

Taking the place of our tainted reality are bright light and cityscapes instead

overpowering what was once real with fabrication forged with pride.

In an upheaval our world is constantly turned upside down 

all for the unsettling volatility of human nature.

When something isn’t our reality anymore, we conceal destruction

of ourselves and of everything else around us

in so-called progress.

S.