You Know Me

We hangout remotely with pretend friends

We share these moments all alone

We strive for virtue virtually

Self-promoting these stage clothes

We search for soul in every blue forgotten room

And they wont know us at all

Once a moment of nostalgia

Now forms a sharp repressing cast

Abstraction evolves from past lives renewed

Through change in latitude we leave behind empathy

Darling, you know me

But I don't know you at all

Fifteen minutes of fame (all day long)

Self-image we created (self-delusion)

Fingertips paint the screen

My children will have to teach me

And I won't know them at all

In solitude we long for union

In union we sell for collected change

But how will I miss you if you won't go away?

Darling, you know me

But I don't know you at all

No longer intimate

No longer physical

So I don't know you at all

"Hello. These are the things left behind in your wake: distraction, disconnection, conformity, waste, irrelevance, debt, narcissism, regret, disease, isolation, and bodies."