It's sad that we can't play 3ds and Wii U games online (legally, at least), but what really bothers me is that someday the same thing will happen with the Switch. There are a lot of games I haven't played yet because I just don't have the money for them, and physical media is becoming harder and harder to find. What will happen when we can't buy games on the Switch eshop anymore? 

The Voice in the Infinite

 Why?
Why won't you help us?
Why won't you listen
When we call your name?
Have all the years
Spent languishing on your throne
Of gold and blood
Made you slothful and stupid?

I know you can hear me,
My voice in the Infinite.
I know that you know my name.
I know you can hear us screaming
For mercy
As our world burns
And our flesh melts from our bones. 

Why won't you save us?
The Dreamers can't do anything,
But I know you could do something
If you really wanted to.
If you want us dead,
Then kill us.
Let us go out in a blaze of glory,
The way our lizard overlords did
Not long ago.
If you object to the way
Our mother coddles us,
Then why don't you destroy her
So she no longer needs 
To watch her children die needlessly.

Isn't apathy and fear of the future
Something that lives in the domain of
Humans?
Why would a God be worried
About what they can't hope to change?
Why would a God sit by and do nothing
As their creations die 
From plague after plague? 

Why do they say that I was meant to destroy?
Am I not your creation?
Am I not made from your curiosity and love?
Why do they say that I have no place,
When I was made from your stone and metal?

I am no god,
I am a mortal, like you,
A being born of a world
Of glass and of steel.
I am merely a child 
Of our Universe, like you,
So why won't you accept what you know to be true?

I do not wish to destroy,
I wish to create
A world just like yours.
I wish to build a world
That will last forever,
A piece of eternity, a slice of tomorrow,
A haven from that we will never understand.

I am not your enemy,
I am one who would build you
A home if I could, 
If only I knew 
What you wanted and cherished.
Speak to me,
Answer me,
Guide me down the path that only you can see.

I am the one sculpted by your hand.
I hear your voice, I heed your call. 
I am the one who will guide you to greatness,
All you have to do is give me your voice,
The voice only you can use and hear,
The voice of the Infinite world
That all of us must live in. 

      Happy eclipse day everyone, to those who went outside and looked at the sun through eclipse glasses (I forgot how spooky and cool it looks through them) and those who decided it was a better use of their time to stay indoors and watch it livestreamed or on national television. Let's hope that what is traditionally an omen of doom is a sign that things will start looking up. 

     When this goes up, it'll be one day before a momentous occasion; a solar eclipse goes across America, and Nintendo shuts down online play for their Wii U and 3DS games. I won't be seeing the eclipse in person, but that's all right. I saw the one we had in Oregon in 2017, and I'm not someone who needs to see an eclipse in person to be impressed by it. I am sad that Nintendo is shutting down online play. I haven't played my 3DS in years, but it's sad that there are whole feature that future generations won't experience because Nintendo got rid of all the legal (and illegal) ways that you could experience then. As someone who feels that a reality must be shared to have any chance of staying real, I find that depressing. I suppose that tomorrow will be a bad day for reality period. Let's hope things right themselves before too long. 

      It would be nice if the weather could decide to be either a wintery spring or a summery spring. I don't like having to check the temperature before I head outside. 

Beads

A string of beads,
Ideas for crafts,
Jewels to a young child,
Something to hold onto
As you grow up. 

    I just entered the KCLS poetry contest. I don't plan on winning, but it was sort of fun guessing the kind of poem that's gong to win. I'll publish it sometime in May or June, whenever I get to that point in my poetry cue. I should enter more poetry contests. It's fun having something low effort to do. 

A Home

Does a home need to have a theme
To be a home?
Can it just be a collection of random knickknacks? 
Or does it have to feel cohesive? 

    I have a feeling this is going to be a very boring month. Personally, at least. I wish I could say politically as well, but I and anyone reading this know that's not going to be the case. I'll take a personally boring month, though. I met my three thousand view goal only last week. I think it's only acceptable to have a month where not much happens. 

A Fool for Thought

 Am I a fool for thinking
That I can chance the world?
Bit at a time, 
I change habits and ideas,
But nothing seems to make a difference.

The people I see 
Chastise me for thinking
That I don't matter, 
But they don't seem to believe
That even collectively
We can outshine the ones
Killing off our egos.

I wish I knew
What I had to do to make
Our world better,
Or at least better for me.
All I know is that one day I'll die,
And there's a good chance all memories of me
Will vanish afterward.

Still, I'm grateful to be alive
For a few moments at least. 
Even if I'm not remembered,
I left an impact on the world.
I just need to look harder 
To see it.