The virus is part of us
The more we run
The more we fight it
The more it eats at us
We stopped trusting nature
We become firefighters
Damage control
Leaving bodies behind
We become cells
That shrink away
Frightening images
Of angry antibodies
We forget about their souls
Where will they rest?
The ones we lost
When will we mourn them?
Sold a fantasy
Of glass ceilings
And slippy ladders
There's the snake
Slide down,
Back to the beginning
I'm sorry that you've been lied to
That you had to build a new truth
So what's real?
I don't know
But I know cells exist
And particles of heat
Always moving
And things react, die or multiply
Love exists
Because you can feel it
When your heart squeezes
And gives you fever
Evil exists
Do you remember when
You first faced it?
The true horror
It moves like the virus
Or heat particles
Inside us
We wait in fear
We want to hear
Benign, safe, mild
We want to deny
We want absence
I'm so afraid
But I'm also here.
I want to face it.
I will join you.