Re-runs (Unplugging The Damned Thing)

I've lost the remote control to your love

I checked under the couch

and in between the recliner

But it wasn't there.

Now,

I can't press forward to move on from my mistakes

Nor can you rewind to remember our past and the great memories we once shared

We can't change the channel when we can't compromise

I can no longer comfortably turn you on at my leisure.

I went and bought one of those universal love remotes

But I can't figure out the code to your heart

I know I wrote it down somewhere.

...

What's worse is your love is stuck on mute

And there is no volume button anywhere to be found

So you no longer talk to me

And I no longer hear you

All because

I've lost the remote control to our love.

(© copyright by Angel Suarez, from "Smoke And Mirrors", the collected works of The Number 42 (forthcoming)