Party Like There’s No Tomorrow

Happy sounding words

spew like smoke from our mouths

and swirl around our heads

in this foggy room

echoing with rowdy laughter

and chemically induced

emotion

is this a party

celebrating

the hurting of people

we don’t even know

to preserve ideas that we don’t understand

or is it just that we are happy

to be better than the others

that someone told us to fear

the smiles

that shout in vain

that everything is fine

serve as masks to shield us

from each other

does any of this help us

become known

and loved for who we really are

does any of this create a connection

where there is nothing

but the noisy reciting of memes

blame

and other officially approved distractions

from the truth

does any of this help

heal the broken

and lonely people

we really are