By the time you receive this
we’ll be gone
several dozen times over.
Destroying more than just ourselves
warping the light
and air
with a single turn of the world.

My body is already breaking.
aching jaw leaking flame,
like an angel suddenly forced to live
the incredible loneliness
of being human.

An endless hallway
where nothing stares back,
save a whimpering rope
dangling from a support beam
burning boundless in the sun.

Gasp back awake
for even in your dreams
we all share a single name.