Longing

Can we still feel?
It’s getting hard to breath
Hard to think
Hard to know
What do we actually know?
Good things and bad things
Have past us by and now we’re here
Moving on to new and different things
Not better, not worse.
Just different
Continuously different
Eroding the banks
Erasing what we knew

Everyone is a stranger
And I’m no longer excited
To meet new people
I’ve known so many people
For so long
And so many of them are gone
One way or another

My hopes for the future
Are long behind me
What we wanted
Never quite came to be
What is isn’t bad
But we thought there’d be more
And maybe a bit less
The world grew technologically
And shrank emotionally

It’s getting hard to care
Hard to stay