here is darkness liquid dreams
nothing there is real, it seems
you touch a velvet form
but eyes see one purple coloured storm
forming itself in your mind —

there is illusion
the human hive a driving force
follow along
you won’t be disappointed
shadows follow us as well
take it as a spell
they complete yourself well —

you might be on a drifting planet
without a sun being next to you
it might be cold
you won’t be sold
to loneliness
whom will you choose for your companion?

or are you glad of being shadowless?
won’t you recognise it as a second skin
but the sin of your flesh?

are you afraid
of the surrogate
do you enjoy yourself
only you
noone else to care or frighten for?

drifting in space
nothing to eat
nothing to buy
noone to meet
no woman, no cry —

a singular face
out there in space
you’re the rocketman
do whatever you can
in being the representative of earth —

tell your sorrows to every alien
frightened of us
because of the golden voyager plate
tell them we aren’t naked all the time
we do have some kind of civilisation
even though we’re currently doing our worst
in destroying all our achievements —

if they like watching movies
the should come with popcorn
watching from afar
how humans fight over the most stupid things
and take it home as a lesson.

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        © Dominik Alexander / 2023