Old As Dirt

Why don’t you bleed

When we cut you open?

Why does the air become thin

Every time you breath in?

You are older than you can remember

And for what purpose you will never know

Why you can never die.

Power for power’s sake,

Hunger for hunger’s sake.

We are the flies in your jar,

The bugs in your light,

And the spiders in your drain.

Billions of us,

All alone,

Senseless masses

Endlessly crashing

Into each other’s dreams in passing.

When an eye meets an eye

They both go blind,

And everyone leaves

The murder scene

With a straight face and nothing much to say.