Lost Under HeavenLOST UNDER HEAVEN
For the longest time I have lived the life of this world without belonging to it. Stepping thru days of waking sleep, the perpetual grey of my hometown seeps into the silver linings of my dreams. Educated for a world that does not exist I find my self suitably shackled by conventions paper chains. The potential of my youth adulterated into a begrudging acceptance of freedumb in the west. My body an empty shell frequents the haunts of civilized behavior, but my mind is elsewhere. Depersonalized. Disconnected. Adrift. Those whom like brothers I once held close are now greeted as a daily nagging limitation. If I was not so numb it would pain me; the movement of glass like water gliding thru the flesh strikes me an amusing occurrence, bodily pain an absurd hang up of this cosmic joke.
This is all I have known & they say it’s the best we got here on this rock, a drift in infinite space. “There is no alternative” still triumphantly echoes off glass walls of the past 30 year’s progress, at this point I am beyond disillusionment with the things that I see and read and hear every day. I have accepted the utter fallacy of this world built around us, within its limited parameters of debate all is censorship by Omission and Bullshit on repetition. From my self imposed alienation I observe the automatic existence of the aggressively normal, as they continues to totter along the precipice of human engineered apocalypse seemingly with out the slightest understanding or interest to the consequences of this lifestyle. As this world get’s warmer, the people get colder, self-preservation becomes the rallying call of a civilization on the brink of collapse.
My understanding of existence has been reduced to a reality stranger than fiction, an all-consuming complexity made of manufactured fear, played out in tragi-comic cycles by Hungry ghosts. We have populated the void with novelty born of exploitation, incessantly trying to salvage a life that has lost all meaning. I don’t believe in it, yet I am of it, and I live it.