Aged Irrelevant

For every year that drips past my palms

Ignoring seconds like biting flies

Watching it all gain momentum

I am caught in remembrance

Of my lives long gone spent

Belonging to the middle of another century

Extinct at the millennial bell’s call

Where everything woke up

And nothing became true

No captives were taken

Only those with the will to coast

To rub shoulders with the next

Any one of a million lonely souls

The sentimental was strangled

All the elements turned plastic

Even love found a way t...