The Annihilation of Coherence

note: this is one of my oldest poems and one of my least favorite creations. I put it up here to measure and compare my work from 2018 to now.

What do people have to prove?

Nowadays to look a certain way

The world today has a new groove

But I’m afraid it’s far from good

I implore us to make sense

Do we want to annihilate our very significance?

And be see-through containers?

Being used to caress my brain with opinions

But now feeling bland and dumb

I’m kind of unique

And I want it to stay that way

But I feel like everyone’s snickering

And then my reputation’s put at stake

Half the time all I want to know is why

We are all so dead inside

Trying to keep our feelings clandestine

To make some acquaintances

But will we really show how we feel?

I’m awestruck at how much we lie

Straight through our teeth

Maybe we’ll win a prize

On how to be counterfeit

With respect to our personalities

#poem