It's Time to Pull the Plugs
They say we choose conflict because it's all we really know, and who would we be without it?
Rip the hands clenched tightly round wrists
Jump into the unknown
Release from the tight ropes of numbers painted so rigidly
Alarms that blare, waking the dead more than the blood-shot eyed masochists
Dive into the unstructured
Delivered from timelines and schedules
Automated by bots that know nothing more than zeros and ones
Crash into the crinkling sounds of a forest untouched
Liberated by the waters that flow over you
From river to sea, free
As it is time to let go of all the mistakes and catastrophes arranged so meticulously for the destruction of all that has bloomed
Let it go
Put down the knives and disconnect the red buttons from the motherboard
More than enough has been aptly dealt
This land deserves a breather
Heck we all know we could use one
So lay down the weapons and drain all the jet fuel, cut the blue, red, and yellow wires
Let it go
The game is over and no one has won
Please, it's time to move onto something better than all that's been done
About the Creator
Oneg In The Arctic
A queer storyteller and poet of arctic adventures, good food, identity, mental health, and more.
Co-founder of Queer Vocal Voices
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