AnaisWrites

You open your mouth,
but all that comes out
is someone else’s agenda:

how capitalism is just
colonialism in drag,
how the planet is bleeding,
how the people in charge
are all dressed in power
and empty where a soul should be.

yes.
i know.
i feel it too.

but god,
i’m tired.

tired of rage
being the only language
we speak fluently.

i don’t want to be
another mouthpiece
for the apocalypse.

i don’t want your headlines tonight.
i don’t want your doom scroll.
i don’t want another intellectual circle jerk
about the end of the world.

can we just fucking talk
about what keeps us here?