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The Living Dead
Look around at
The living dead
Weary eyes
Tired of staring
Into the abyss
Of a bright screen
Exhausted voices
Chattering to fill
The empty silence
Of being alone
Their minds
No longer lively,
Excited,
And imaginative,
Are filled with whispers of thoughts
Sad remnants of their previous,
Joyous lives
Walking in a concrete jungle
Devoid of any life at all
Anything but the sad
Lifeless people
Wandering the streets
Watch
And wonder
Where did their youth go
Where did the smiles
The laughs
The bubbly appearance
With bright colors
And crayons in hand
Where did it go?
Why is everyone so
So
Gray?
Where did all the color go?
It’s like
It’s almost like
Everyone walks around
With the hand of death
Grasping their shoulders
And the weight
Of a million things
Clinging to their backs
Like massive stones,
Boulders even,
Tied to their waists
Being dragged around the world
By their heavy and weary feet
But look,
The world around them
Is not quite so dull
It bustles
And bumbles
With life,
Sound and lights
Surrounding them
But their light,
Their hope,
Gone.
Though they live
In a vivacious,
Colorful world,
They themselves
Are pale and gray
They have been bleached
Stripped of their color
And joy
And replaced with tools,
Machines,
Hearts that beat
Only because they need to
Eyes staring straight ahead
With no thought behind them
Feet wandering aimlessly
Until they find their set destination
The world is broken
And neither these colorful signs
Nor sounds of life
Nothing
Can heal this wound.
Even if you took a tired man
From the street
And painted him in color,
He would not regain his youth
Or hope
Or joy
He would remain
Dull
And gray
On the inside
Just as tired
And weary
As he was
Before
The colors
And masks
That people wear
Mean nothing
Compared
To the clouds
In their minds,
The weights they carry
They are empty
And lifeless,
Autonomous beings
Being driven forward
Only by the force
Of time
And the faintest will
To regain the color
The radiance
And ecstasy
That they once had
Long,
Long ago
When the world
Was a different place
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