we are playing
hide and seek
in the library
ducking and crouching
behind bookshelves
in between the
history of the world
and the disintegration
of everyone’s sanity
we cheerfully chortle
brushing past paranoia
and the fingers of fate
that we only catch glimpses of
we are sneaking past narratives
with dashing heroes and daring heroines
we are counting down
to our discoveries
while enraptured ghosts
follow close behind
the repetition of
romance and revolution
the reinvention of
equality and exploitation
taking refuge behind
our ancestors and
all that is recorded of
humanity’s unexpectedness
hide and seek
in the library
ducking and crouching
behind bookshelves
in between the
history of the world
and the disintegration
of everyone’s sanity
we cheerfully chortle
brushing past paranoia
and the fingers of fate
that we only catch glimpses of
we are sneaking past narratives
with dashing heroes and daring heroines
we are counting down
to our discoveries
while enraptured ghosts
follow close behind
the repetition of
romance and revolution
the reinvention of
equality and exploitation
taking refuge behind
our ancestors and
all that is recorded of
humanity’s unexpectedness