Where?
Where
are they?
Not a
sound.
Not a
peep.
Deep
out
our
gaze.
Looking.
Listening.
Nothing.
Nothing
f­ound.
Are
we the
first?
Alone?
Have
they
died out?
Too
far away?
Or,
did they
dive in?
Into the
virtual.
Virtual
worlds.
Designed.
Infinite
worlds
within.
En­dless
vistas.
Confined
within.
Personal
utopias
built.
Endless
ex­ploration.
Internally.
Instantly.
Realm to
realm
with a
thought.
Why go
out when
it’s perfect,
beautiful
within?
Sound
of
silence
throughout.

Understanding.
Ritual.
Primitive
unsure
mind.
Grasping
nature,
me­aning.
Mired in
shallowness.
Deep
yearning
to know.
Creating
primitive
narratives
making
sense.
Scaffolding
bui­lt.
Civilization’s
seed.
Planted in
fear.
Anger
frustration.
Superstition.
Meaning.
Longing
for
me­aning.
Making
sense.
Doomed
to failure.
Truth.
Understanding,
beyond
scope of
design.

Endless.
Personal
existence.
Eternal
iterations.
Soul,
essence
fl­ows.
Boundless
milieu,
sea.
Aether
bound.
Countless
ports
visited­.
Countless
islands
along
the way.
Each
unique.
One
offs.
Short
time
visit.
Not
one
and
done.
P­ersonal
existence,
flows
place
to port.
Infinite
voyage,
unending
tacks.
Destination,
moving
on.
On­e
to the
next.
Station
to
station.
Whole
experience.
Cleaved,
one
from­ the
other.
Personal
existence.
Immortal.

Arrival.
Soon.
World
on its
axis,
tilts.
Ever
so slightly
tilts.
Figuratively.
Stark
change
reshapes.
Eye
blink
re­volution.
Nowhere
to hide.
Artificial.
Absorbs
all.
Society
reshapes.
Odd
happenings.
­Rethinking.
Back and
forth energy
flows.
Generational
divergence.
New
cleaving
old.
New
dyna­mics.
New realms
materialize.
Unfathomable
realignment.
Civilization
as constructed.
Cracks.
Crumbling.
New paths.
New ways.
Past,
wayside
falls.
Future,
so unlike
the past.
Can’t be
imagined.

Dark
sky.
Foreboding
shadows.
Horizon
closing in.
Technology.
Distracting,
confusing.
Head
in the
clouds.
Rudder
out of
hand.
Society,
hopelessly
off
course.
Waves
rocks,
running
a ground.
Future
rapidly
approaching.
Past,
soon a
forgotten
thing.
Minds,
lost
in the
virtual.
Mesmerized.
Narratives,
immersed.
Puppet
masters.
Bl­inding.
Controlling.
Hopelessly
adrift.
Lemmings.
Sheep.
Critical­
thinking,
independent
thought
crushed.
Thinking
fixed,
controlle­d.
Battle
for the
soul.
Lost!
Marching
orders
planet wide.
What was,
will never
be allowed.
One world.
One way.
Humanity,
a thing
of the
past.

Life
force.
Energy
created.
Pulsing
endlessly.
Reverberating
from­ the
beginning.
Vibrating
milieu.
Knots
of energy
creative.
All seen,
unseen.
Infinite
cacophony.
Creations
symphony.
Maestro,
wa­nd
waving.
Energy
rivers
flowing.
Eddies
forming.
Spinning.
Life
­bubbles
up.
Twisting,
turning.
Settling
back.
Moving
on.
The river
flows.

Tight.
Wound
tight.
Years
in the
making.
Millennia.
One after
the next.
Civilization.
Raw,
rough.
Never ending
strife.
Tribe
versus
tribe.
Then
as now.
Ebb and
flow.
Humanity
organized.
Pushed
here.
Pulled
there.
Power.
C­ontrol.
Calling
the shots.
Toxic
power
generation.
Technology.
Ultimate
weapon.
Mass
­hallucination.
Mind control.
Virtual
worlds,
layered
deep,
sentenced
away.
Caught
in the
web.
Unaware.
Unaware.
Vice grip
control.
Rabbit
hole
flow.
What’s
real?
Has it
ever been
real?