[Dominate]

“Detachment”

It isn’t quite peace - more like an emptiness, floating
A ghost ship, listing. Adrift in an infinite ocean
The world becomes a blur in the grip of centripetal motion -
Thoughts circling inwards until you’re too dizzy to focus
Emotions like faded photos in drawer that never gets opened
Hidden in their quiet prison. Unseen, and better unspoken
It’s raindrops on the window. Double glazed and cool to the touch
Softened reflections. Colour and edges; muted and smudged
Dulling the senses. Sleepwalking, but lucid enough
Bowed to the pull of indifference, and so secure in the numbness
It’s..
Hollowness in places where you used to find endorphin highs
Connections now just relics from a distant time, a former life
Exchanges turn mechanical - singing silent chorus lines
Retreat inside a robot mind as if it’s mighty morphin time
It’s social skills on winter rations. Muscle memory interactions
Twist the dial back and forth, there’s only intermittent static
Apathy’s a cancer but it’s progress is asymptomatic
Hollow brick by hollow brick, you build your walls up single handed
Something lost in every stone
Quickly bordering numberless
Until you’re sitting all alone
In your fortress of nothingness