The clock smiled at us as if it knew we were lost. Unable to see the path, we continued along on the wrong side of the ones and zeroes.
Tired of our aimless float; tired and disoriented in the vacuums of our ignorance. With all kinds of navigational aids to chart our journey we mostly relied upon the compass tattooed over our hearts
While lost in the chasm of our indecision our bodies and minds listed. Our attempts to unpack the endless parcels of our unrest ... proved futile.
So carefully, we re-learned the ABCs and re-interpreted the Western Canon, finding that it was only by closing our eyes that we were able to see; were able to feel.
However, the rhythm was off which was immaterialΒ Β as our feathers were ruffled and the rhetoric was pluming.
With the overture of the new day dawning we turned our back on the algorithms of our demise and shucked off self-imposed limitations.
You see, it was thirty seconds to midnight and the world that never seemed to want us needed us now. So like anemic royalty, we took flight
breathing down rarefied air and gulping the nuances of our resilience to swallow: our intergenerational trauma one more time.
Submitted to SAAG writing prize competition on July 1, 2019 (slightly modified version)