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the world
entropy must increase,
disorder in your brain
impossible to untangle in music
can’t sense-make nonsense and expect to gain
there’s got to be another way,
there’s a pounding in your head
there’s a solution, thermodynamically
excise the pain, release the dread
but when you stop running
all you hear is your breath
the sear in your lungs
pounding in your chest
stripped away, immortalized
beastly, energized
your face hot against warm water
the body is all that remains, unclothed
a shock to the eye,
stripped of ego, stripped of pride
curve of waist meets slant of thigh
without facade, it’s who you are
truths tantalizing and terrified
feared to face, close your eyes
but its you, you cannot hide,
so open.
see on wide;
the messy marks of an existence cried
unfortunately, agonizingly alive
smeared grease stains on phone screen
and passed a joke from video to friend
statistically significant,
node on the web of connection
sticky fingers push cheek,
mold skin to who you are
physical barriers between us,
but our minds touch, less individual
more undefined,
more unknown
split between the bodies of friends
and everyone i ever met
self-description entailed self-destruction
and a greater whole emerged from the mess
ridiculously vulnerable
a populace in fetal form
the world, it was me and you
the individual a self-serving lie
all born with fragile skin that breaks
all born from the same blue sky
all born vulnerable
to the world, expecting attack from all sides
i ran, and it worked, because entropy increased
but my energy went to another cause
a difficult pill to swallow,
that things don’t disappear when they're gone
the world is a closed system,
and we are who you are
and i fear you
and i love you
and you are me, and i am you
and when i see something i recognize
in the reflection in your eye,
and when i run and try to hide,
we are the world, it’s all around
it’s within me.