Matter & Space

from You Are Alive by Nova Soon

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No, it won’t matter in a month’s time.
Your fear will shatter in a shot glass,
downed on your way to class, quick-smart.

Go write a song of a hundred lines,
and rhyme the two words ‘heart’ and ‘dark’
half a hundred times: hell, it works for me.

No, it won’t matter in a year’s time.
The light will scatter all the old ghosts
from those photos, and you’ll laugh.

Go draw the blinds on your window closed,
drink a bottle of wine all curled up
with that epic episode, and just melt away.

It’s alright, it’s okay:
everyone you’ve ever loved will die someday.
And that’s okay. It’s alright, it’s okay:
clinging to the skin of a spinning stone in space,
and no one knows why. No one knows why.
Maybe it don’t matter.

Now the screen-glow lights up your eyes;
moonlit love scenes and fire-fights.
Your tears and laughter feel planet-sized.
You realise it’s been the best night of your life.

It’s okay, it’s alright:
we’re all just specks
in the swooning circle of time.

It’s alright, it’s okay:
everyone you’ve ever loved will die someday.
And that’s okay. It’s alright, it’s okay:
clinging to the skin of a spinning stone in space,
and no one knows why. No one knows why.
Maybe it don’t matter.

No, it won’t matter in the Next Age,
when dumb desert birds
go wheeling in a dumb red sky.

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from You Are Alive, released November 29, 2019

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