Two Poems

 by Lily Eldrid

(image by Dan Gold)

The Earth is Too Old

The earth is too old

For originality 

I am a remake

Of a thousand people prior

And with this realisation 

Comes a peaceful clarity

That I am not alone

For these words will be written

Again, and again, and again

Until the earth gets sick of hearing them

 

I Am Left Alone

I am left alone in existential dread

All my friends are far ahead

And I am stuck

And I fear soon my feet

Will be so deep in the ground

That I will be swallowed whole

 

But I do not move

For then people will see me

And I will be swallowed anyway,

Now with a judging audience