On It

 On it

How can anything 

be a love song 

with everything going on 

how can we think of us 

against these flames 

in the background 

maybe lovers in Vesuvius 

thought the same thing-  

smile and pose for history 

we’re in the moment 

exactly like this 

how can anything be a love song 

so that’s what you thought 

as I make the world stop 

for a moment and you can 

put down your phone 

and take off your clothes 

if love isn’t struggle 

if love isn’t loss 

if love isn’t the finger 

against the darkness 

and isn’t what you hum 

on your lips against these horrors 

then I don’t know 

what 

we are