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Lost


We are new relics, 

tucked away in a time capsule before our lives could be fulfilled, 

grazed over and buried in the sands of madness and the apocalypse, 

trapped and encased in our snug capsule. 

When or if it is opened again, 

we will be the same yet subtly different.

The signs of consciousness, 

of thinking and breathing remain persistent,

for we were never truly frozen, 

only stuck. 

We could still see, 

still think, 

but now we re-enter into the world 

and we have stayed but yet we have not stayed, and dust and cobwebs cover our new shiny coat of paint, 

because it is no longer new when it has been left to sit and rot alone and in the dark of the earth.

 

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kermitthefrog

Hiiii, my writing name is E.A Garner, cause why not, and I am a gifted kid burnout who’s failing english class but never stopped thinking in poetic internal monologues. Most of my poems are really just vents that ended up being really metaphorical. I spend my days either reading or watching cartoons, photographing my cats, and contemplating the inevitability of death and stuff. I’m 18, I get overly invested in fictional characters and I’m a leo. My pronouns are they/he and my favorite food is pasta.

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