and so the world fell

tumbling and rumbling with sparks and great cracks

left in the dust we were supposed to stand as the last hope of a fallen civilization, the last flickering light and love, hope and faith

I hope we get there

that is why I stay

I look within and find a complicated system of my own creation, that I no longer understand

Somewhere in the myriads of voices that sound within me, are those voices I should listen to, those that are actually mine

Somewhere in a corner

hidden behind false rules, unaccepting systems and categories that should never have been defined

is that light I once lit within my heart