incite
STATIC
To the unknown becoming home
How many hours spent facing the same vacant walls, held hostage by subdued whispers of “this was only meant to be temporary”.
Is it better to hold fast To stay and sleep or to rise and fight and burn?
And that is the great paradox — The plight of this existence
How long does it take for a house to become a home?
Because I have spent years craving sleep, longing for a reprieve from the static of chaos, And this numbness is soft and inviting.
How long is too long, watching the sun rise and fall while the Earth persists in its same unfaltering ellipsis, and life’s warm glow rests upon a thousand other places.
But how long before this numbness becomes worse than what it costs to drag each petrified limb up from the floor — to begin living again. x
How many nights on the frigid tile of the bathroom floor until its familiarity becomes a comfort. Funny, how it slips right past you And then you are looking back at it from the other side. To go from leaving home and facing the unknown
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