Nous Sommes
We are
The desperate leftovers
Clinching at fragments of the night
Essential belongings casually misplaced
Strewn all about the Northern suburbs
In chaotic moments, bare and humble
We are
Indulgingly the world’s greatest critics
Inevitably our own undoers
Yet endlessly satisfied with petty reflections
Of those who passed through, without malice or intrude
We are the shreds of screaming life
Teeming with unsubstantiated attitude
The essence of ignorant youth
Half dead and far less than half enlightened
In a place of neutral existence
We are
Embracing the carelessly placed flames
With vague shrouds of notions of safety
We are the pieces that the night threw away
Wandering aimlessly
Navigating through lost without handles
Misplaced limbs - a possible cause for confusion
We are
Experiencing vague notions of romance
Chosen to fall witness to this sunrise sky so red and orange
The heavens are on fire and well alive with indiscriminate whispers of god
We are
Slaved to those neurotransmitters residual
In the haze of an ether of a dream of a lunge
And then of someone else’s dream again and again
Endlessly, perpetually, falling away from our right minded occupational habits
We are
On the verge of inescapable collapsation
Simultaneously indestructible, essentially complete
Yet irresistibly fragile - all the while and twice more
We are relentlessly charging forward to hopeful and virgin territories
We are on the precipice of knowing
We are chasing those moments of perfection
With the passion of infinity
We are