What kind of life is this?
To even wonder of your worth,
Your cost to stay alive.
Some reach without a touch,
Merely brushing by.
Like leaves on broken branches,
Merely brushing by.
Somewhere East of Other
Looking from receding eyes.
What kind of life is this?
What’s the equation
For its cost?
Better to be a number
Than trapped in an unthought.
Some of us are counted,
Some are simply, not.
Some are in a blaring light.
A jarring, blinding, biting bright.
A blazing, burning, phosphor white.
Too light to feel the dullest dark
Of a sunken damaged life.
And some are dimly lit,
A harvest of debasement.
Shadows packed in plastic.
Molded, masked, and mended.
Their light of life is rendered.
You can only see yourself in
Somebody else’s light.
You can only shine against,
Somebody else’s light.
You can only see the world
In somebody else’s light.
Somebody East of Other,
Trying to find the number of their life.
What kind of life is this?
credits
from Laying On Ice,
released February 24, 2024
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