YOU said a system in Collapse is a system moving forward.
Do you have memories of Sex? Of Dancing? Of Dying?
I remember cleaning Hepatitis from your layers of Oppression.
I remember someone said:
“Man is the only animal that truly laughs and weeps.
So struck
By the difference between what is and what Could. Have. Been.“
Do you remember when they told you Why He Died?
And why You Would Too?
Was it a needle skip?
A thought stuck in the well of a record’s groove?
A sweeping emptiness so vast it fills itself?
As composition decomposes,
Note by note, as you unspool,
I wonder if it is not the Light that creates the Stars.
Toby Hemker - Poetry 