There is always a natural cycle around a Shutdown;
be it a government Shutdown or a Shutdown
between two individuals after a conflict.
The shutdown happens and there is a period
where everyone silently ignores it,
It doesn’t affect me directly.
The shutdown has no impact.
And the moment in life comes,
Leaving us in dire need
of affection … of love,
of the security of relationship or a paycheck.
Now we are lost in archives of neglect, abandonment or both.
Buried in forgotten sands.
These moments in life of Shutdown,
leave us in dry tears,
as the stars could never fathom.
Then the moment comes when,
One of two things happen,
a vivid illustration of the pain or
there is widespread pain.
Igniting empty thoughts,
abandoned in a pool of sleepless nights.
Now we get to the trigger.
We forget how to stand up as our battles take control,
then times glides backwards,
Self-preservation can extend all the way to fears,
fears of the future lingers on,
fear of losing..
projecting lies..
projecting dim lights of fading hope..
These moments never seem to pass,
dropping us at an impasse.
Paranoia wins us over;
narcissism undo us
into the fear
we fled from.
A Shutdown About Winning.
Dissolving us in hatred
with legacies conjured by illusions.
