Death Takes Us So The New Kids Can Live

I’m always trying to lose weight.

So that the new children in the world have space to live.

Because the less of me there is the more room the world has.

The universe is painted on the palm of my hands and I’m always trying to wash it away.

Soap and water.

Soap and water.

Soap and water.

And I need to scrub until it all turns cold and closes it’s eyes for the last time.

So there is more room for the new children.

Because they deserve to have space to live.

They deserve to hug their parents.

And to have their first kiss.

And go to their first dance.

And to fall in love with something.

Or someone.

Or everyone.

And they deserve to find their favorite song.

And their favorite movie.

Soap and water.

Soap and water.

Soap and water.

And then they need to know what it’s like to eat lunch in the bathroom.

Because I still do that all the time and it helps the universe fade.

Because soon their universe needs to die.

So there is more room for the new children.

They need to see their parents cry.

Fading.

They need to feel the pain of falling for someone who feels nothing for you.

Fading.

They need to know what the pressure to be beautiful hurts like.

Fading.

And then they need to scrub.

Soap and water.

Soap and water.

Soap and water.

Because we need to let the new children feel the universe grow. 

That’s one of deaths favorite things about life.

Death loves watching us grow.

Because no matter how ugly and unloved we feel, death loves us and wants us.

He watches us when happiness is leaking out of our hearts and when we are so passionate about something our eyes light up and he smiles because we always look so beautiful to him no matter what our mirrors say.

Death loves watching us love.

Death was never the bad guy. Just a good guy who never learned how to take of his mask.

We need him.

Because at one point we all will be singing to people with no ears and thats when our universe is gone and we have no more room to live.

So we die.

He takes us so he can change the channel and fall in love with the new characters on the screen.

So that the new kids can grow.