instrusive thoughts/energy

machines function with energy from the sun,
and without the sun, they can not run,
they can not fulfill their purpose, their dream,
and wonder why each passing day seems
like parts of weathered, feeble bones
cracking, crumbling, pounding stone
like sledgehammers to their broken hearts
because they've not the energy to run their parts.

and like machines, humans function with energy from
taking in, consuming what's been said and done,
like plants and wrapped up things from slaughterhouses
and some from places where it's hard to know pronounces.
to save up what is left after we starve
we find it hard to live to lift our broken arms and hearts
and spend our days in quite a long fatigue
because without our energy we can not breathe.

-lj
2 June 2017