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Plug In

A Friday Poem

By Silver DauxPublished about 7 hours ago 1 min read
Plug In
Photo by Scott Rodgerson on Unsplash

Plug me in.

Give me some juice.

I need the buzz

Vibrating

In the middle

Of my spiralling thoughts.

Plug a couple wires

Into the bottom

Of my skull

And transport me

Into some server room

Where the world matters.

Where it is safe.

Preserved

In the way I once dreamt

Nature would be.

.

Give me up to the cops,

Turn me over

In handcuffs

For being the last idiot

To adopt false peace.

I was just hungry

To taste the world

I dreamt of as a child

Where butterflies soared

And birds chirped.

Where it rained.

Snowed.

Where summer was

Hot and humid,

But enjoyable with its

Rainbows and lightning bugs.

.

Everything is dead.

Dried out

Or washed downstream,

Poured into some

River delta

Where archaeologists

Can dig up remnants

Of our beauty.

But should I live and die

In the arid fields of my dreams,

Leave my bones for them

To discover?

Or should I plug in

And let the system

Disintegrate my will?

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About the Creator

Silver Daux

Shadowed souls, cursed magic, poetry that tangles itself in your soul and yanks out the ugly darkness from within. Maybe there's something broken in me, but it's in you too.

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  • Dharrsheena Raja Segarranabout 2 hours ago

    Hmmm, both seems sad but not getting plugged in seems like the lesser of two evils. Loved your poem!

  • Andrea Corwin about 4 hours ago

    Don't plug in. Live it loud and proud!

  • Strong Thoughts 💙💙Nice Piece!

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