Anthem
by Katherine Coyne
When It began, the Earth rested under our backs.
We gazed into the stars above,
Felt the cool sand blanket us,
And listened to only the harmony of waves.
We existed in tangent with our world.
But after our Earth disappeared, our sanity followed.
We watched each other fall
Through the melting solid ground
that swallowed us whole.
We swam through infinity, trapped in open existence.
All we could do was float away from each other,
And stare into vast space where we once had a home.
Eternities of longing for what we once loved built a shell.
Now we feel nothing upon our backs,
See nothing of the fluid destruction that took all we had.
There is no pain in our glistening eyes
No knowledge of the agony coursing through our body.
And we know not what this power is, nor if it will stay.
But we know its nature, for we have used it to keep from feeling.
And this, this willful ignorance,
became our anthem.
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