Faultlines
Adding up to nothing

Concrete first.
No, god first.
No, pressure. Always pressure.
~
I stand. Or lean. Or am already falling and calling it posture.
The crack is there before the thought.
Administrative fracture. Clipboard energy.
Matter filing a complaint against itself.
~
My body is a stack of arguments.
Weight vs balance.
Skin bargaining with stretch.
Muscle promising things it cannot deliver.
Gravity owns the lease.
Fails to collect.
~
Life overlays badly. Tracing paper drunk.
Fault lines miss each other, on purpose.
Energy hoarded like guilt in the hips.
Released like a confession that ruins the dinner.
~
Fault lines. Those. Yes.
Overclocked myths.
High voltage, IKEA instructions.
Gods split at belief seams,
shed miracles like drywall,
leave rubble shaped like prayer hands.
~
I call this rebellion because delay sounds pathetic.
Because inevitability feels impolite.
Because humans rename panic as philosophy.
~
Entropy scrolls.
Heat death thirst traps.
No rush.
No hate.
Just math closing tabs.
~
I lean anyway.
Warm animal.
Bare skin on cold certainty.
Pressing myself into a crack,
naming the error “me,”
holding still long enough
to feel chosen
before the equation continues
without asking.
.
About the Creator
Iris Obscura
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Stable?
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