A Thoughtless World

 Oh to live 
In a thoughtless world,
A world where worries
Are but a myth.

Oh to live in a world
Where we don't have to worry
About darkness anymore.

     I miss the days when we could pretend we had a sensible government in the United States. 

Our Universe

 Our universe
Surrounds 
And protects us
From what we can't
Know about.

Our universe
Won't crumble
Because we made 
A small mistake. 

    As of today, it's three more days until the start of April, which means it's three more days until the start of national poetry month in the United States. I don't plan on participating on Twitter, but I'm definitely going to write a lot of poems. 

Something to Wait For

 Everyone is standing on the platform,
Waiting for something to arrive.
A train? A Bus? A Taxi? 
I don't know
And nobody else seems to either.

No one remembers how we got here.
Nobody knows where they're going.
All we know is that we're waiting,
Waiting for something that doesn't seem
To want to come.

On and on we stand,
Our feet getting sore and our legs starting to give out.
You'd think they'd give us benches,
Or at least something to lean on,
But apparently we don't deserve it.
Or maybe they think that the more we suffer now,
The more we'll enjoy the ride when it gets here.

At this moment, I just want to know that something will happen,
That a vehicle will pull up to the platform in front of me
And take me somewhere I want to go.
I know it's silly, 
I know it could take me someplace 
I wish I'd never seen,
But I just want to know that I have something to wait for,
Something that will make the wait worthwhile. 

    When I was in school, I almost never studied for tests. Not because I could ace every subject without studying, but because whenever I opened up a book to start studying, I'd get so overwhelmed with all the things I had to try and learn that I just shut down and didn't do any of it. I feel like that's what's happening on a societal level. Every problem has reached crisis mode at the same time, and nobody knows what order we need to tackle problems in, or even what steps we should take to solve problems at an individual level. We aren't ignoring our problems, we're shoving them to one side and hoping they go away. I realize this is unrealistic, but what we need now is for someone with a soothing voice who has no involvement with the situation to come and help us figure out what order to do things in, and remind us that we'll be fine. Worked well for the Autism program I used in college, not sure how it'll help in real life. 

    I've been hearing rumors about a recession coming for a long time, but if living through 2008 taught me anything, it's that you don't see a recession coming. Not like this. It doesn't feel like a recession's coming. It feels like we're waiting for the apocalypse. 

The World Beyond the Stars

 Do you ever think 
About what will happen
When we leave earth
Behind for good?

What will we see
Once we soar
To a world
Beyond the stars? 

     I wonder how soon before we find a way to record our daydreams to digital media. I'm not thrilled to learn what the consequences will be, but I'm genuinely curious to see how different our minds actually are. 

Rebuilding

 One thing that gives me hope
Is that now
I can see our world
Being remade,
Piece by piece.