you make my head dizzy
wish i could cough up daisies
id pluck their little leaves off
and put them on your forehead,
on your navel
made of jelly

stabilize me
show me who you've become
as i pray i'd disappear into my t-shirt
and you'd disappear out of yours
my skin becomes metallic
my sweat sending jolts of electricity to the ground
this is who i've become

you've become systemic
& i'm sick of wading in this darkness
waiting for a searchlight to blind me and tell me all i've done wrong.
 but you're a red red red blink of light
you tickle my dystopian arms
and rupture my dystopian lips
i am red too

tell me all of this is fake,
that all i need a good dose of reality
that i have two good legs to stand on
tell me to walk away from this

i can almost hear my boots click beneath the ground
and the sound matches that of the woman behind me
we are both walking just to take up space
just to reach every corner we can before it's too late
one day the earth will rupture around us
and all the tree roots will grab at our ankles
and we will let them...

the sun will rise without us
it will not miss us
we'll be cosmic dust
something to be swept up
the moon will sink without us
we'll be cosmic dust
something to be swept up...