08 / Societal Collapse
The Universe Did Not Notice
The universe expands The universe expands I do not I do not Light keeps traveling Without us Light keeps traveling Without us Stars keep burning You are not here Stars keep burning You are not here Time keeps going I stay Time keeps going I stay Everything continues Except what I loved Everything continues Except what I loved The sky keeps everything you promised And gives none of it back I loved you in a universe That does not allow returns Every star feels like a delay Where you should have been I would trade all this distance Just to hear you say my name once The dark isn't empty It's full of where you aren't I keep surviving Which feels like betrayal Time keeps proving You're not coming back I am still here And that's the cruelest fucking part Even the cosmos moves on While I'm stuck loving what's gone Your absence widening like space After the last light died What we were thinning into background No edge left to fucking touch Signals sent too late Lost forever Warmth bleeding out of memory Leaving cold structure behind I move when time drags me Not because you're here The universe keeps expanding And it's fucking unbearable that you're gone Your absence widening like space After the last light faded What we were thinning into background No edge left to touch Signals sent too late Never arriving Warmth retreating from memory Leaving structure behind I move because time does Not because you're here The universe keeps expanding And I feel every inch of you gone Starlight thinning into background Horizons drifting out of reach Pressure without contact Weightless pull Silence widening its hold Across unnamed space Fading warmth in slow retreat From everything Motion continuing without reason Endless, unresolved Expanding dark without direction Residual light losing cohesion Distances opening on their own Afterglow without a source Time stretching thin between moments Cold motion learning patience Signals delayed past recognition Vacuum breathing uneven Remnants of heat unthreading Continuation without meaningBack to Homeless and Hopeless