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