An Empty Room

With a couple screens

So much happens today with others

Inside an empty room.

Dialogues have turned into monologues

Opinions into truths

And now that we’re finally alone

We dare think, say and do

What normally would be kept

inside an empty room.

The windows shine the outside world through

Light casts shadows across the floor

But the screen beckons

And all the things we kept inside

disappear from the empty room

They are sacrificed to the void

The empty room has lost its emptiness

It’s full of people, religion and politics

Everyone is a broadcaster, everyone is an artist

But the empty room has lost its meaning

It’s walls, that collect3d memories of the years

The play of light and shadow and the dust

The furniture of our past comforts

Have all lost their relevance

The dark has been exposed

And our light is fading.

Just by giving away

Our empty room.