Empire Of The Senseless

It isn’t terribly painful to love unrequited; I know pain, and that’s hardly it. All this bliss that we create, it must come from within. What better way to find love? Don’t you think? Don’t you find it strange that we live day after day in a cage of our own creation? We’re afraid to fall asleep without locking the door. Is our family outside? You’re supposed to be my brother, father. You’re supposed to be my sister. What makes you hate me so? Where’s mommy? I don’t remember. I reach for a memory. I find myself, stuck in a dream. I wake up next to her body. I’m screaming, “where’s mommy!” Please, I don’t understand any of this stupid shit! Why am I still in this fucking city? Why am I holding this man? Where’s Sage? I don’t understand! I don’t remember. Can you remind me? Who named him? Was it my self? What did I want, when I found the time to lie still? Screaming on my bedroom floor, I came to know my own boy. He was desperately sad. He’d lost something precious in the woods at night. But he’d forgotten. How