look / at the city
crying / and / starving
in great hunger / they cling to

dreary / dreaming
dashboards / dissolve
empty / essences
crying / circuses

red lights / tame business
green lights / offer pursuit
suits / oppressed
manipulated / scarred

help / help

I stand



Before you                       Cloaked




InVulnerabilty

Please be strong; Please be brave,
You never told me
You wouldn't stay.

Why get invested
When it all disappears,
Why even stay?
What's the point to being here?

I am strong,
I am brave.
No one said
I had to stay,

But I will stay,
Because staying
Was my intention
All this time.

I will not leave,
That type of life
Just doesn't suit me.

I know at times,
I'm one for strife,
But I'm going to be here
With you, for life.

Will you still love me
When I'm old and grey?
Will you still want me
If I go my own way?
And will you still need me
At the end of days?
When you have everything
Will I be a part of that?

The clear sky
clouds the mind
with daydreams

"Morning sunlight kisses our bodies,
Messed up sheets by our tangled bodies,
Tracing each other's backs lovingly."

Quantum computing
Gene editing
Biosensors
Drones
3D printing
AI
VR  
        They’re sci-fi words. Futuristic-y. Sort of make sense, but all good fiction sort  
        of makes sense. We don’t believe in them. Too powerful for real science. Still,
        the what-if gives us a jolt. That’s what makes sci-fi fun. Just the right bit of
        scary.

        Then you look them up. They’re real. All real. We’ve either got steps to them
        or have them already. All real, all this power, real. In the hands of a species that
        destroys as well as it advances. All real.

        And this is the world I’m growing into.

Tick Tock Tick Tock

Looking at the wall with this ****** computer in front of me
Looking around to see if anyone notices me
Thinking of what to tell you when I see you later
Thinking of when I will get the courage to tell you

There are a lot of things we learn here
We learn Math and Science
We learn things we will use in life as we grow up
  But what about the life lessons we need?
Where do we learn that?
Why not here?
Teach me something useful that I could use today....

NOT tomorrow.