Smoke and Air

 Here lies, like a blanket over you and me,

The very last day of a year passed;

In hope, despair, love, and anguish -

Of the human spirit; and spiritual sacrifice.

 

Here we are - celebrating, as we should

Remembering, whom we must

Writing, what was written on the walls

Singing, songs of smoke and air.

We, inhabitants of the Universe-indifferent

We, the signature of intelligence

We, vectors of life, and of lifelessness

Here we are - staring through smog, into images.

As we breathe in droplets of reality, 

A world has changed - clothes or skin, I know not

I stand, naked, on the edge of oblivion, as ever -

The only difference; we're both here, together.