Moving like a machine

Gears grinding into metal ash

I repeat the patterns as the

Patterns repeat

Isn’t it strange

How nothing ever changes here

Except the gears connecting joints

And the steel around my heart?

I used to think you were different

Stood out from the crowd

Like static in the radio

But your nuclear winter

Reminds me not to breathe too deep

Isn’t it comforting

How nothing ever changes here

Except the gears connecting walls

and the places where we start?

Heart like a machine

Pumps pump pump

And I repeat the patterns

Because the patterns are the same

Moving backwards to go forward

Don’t worry now

I’m too far gone to care

Functioning like a robot

Doomed to repeat the same routine

Don’t worry, darling

You’re not the one I blame

Patterns and machines

You are just the same.