Urgency

A sense of urgency keeps taunting me,
bolstered by a sense of self-efficacy
I actually feel like I could put your puzzle together. (Although by the end of all that hard work I would end up laughing about a prank I pulled
where it mattered to you the most.)

Maybe you don’t want me ghosting around your
thoughts where you
might try to hide.

Even though we have
built the beginnings of an empire
It has its roots clinging
to a crumbling bureaucracy

We are actually more like lichens, anyway

So this works out wonderfully

I don’t really need recognition or a home
I just need to see that humans are capable of what I know
That I am
You know, kind love and enough effort

We can transcend this
but I'm so distracted by thoughts of you
a stranger who
I may never know

It is tantalizing to feel we could be dreaming the same thing
And never be sure of it, really
Until we’ve laid it all out there on those
War-scrubbed streets
instead of between
the sheets