We Are Connected

"We Are Connected"

As much as I hate it,

we are connected,

when you hurt, I hurt.

When you are in pain, I feel the guilt 

and don't know where it came,

I just know 

the strands of existence 

that entwine your heart 

to this plane 

also intertwine 

with mine 

and I sometimes 

can feel 

the pull of purpose 

coming from 

a higher celestial realm 

and feel the things you feel.

I have tried to know why 

but instead now

just accept 

that we are connected 

even though 

you are the most awful thing 

I ever regret allowing 

space 

on the pages of my life. 

You will die someday 

and I expect 

the hurt and emptiness to overtake 

my being, 

allowing myself 

to become something else.

I look around 

and just know 

that no one knows 

the burden of you 

but they all see 

that we are cursed 

with connected tissue

to be one and the same. 

We are connected 

even when we  shouldn't.

 

Residual experiences 

that should have 

long bled 

into the liquid of existence 

and left me the fuck alone. 

But here I am again,

hurting again, 

and not knowing why 

but understanding, 

you are going through something

that I don't fucking care for. 

I hate it. 

I hate that we are connected.

-Armando Torres