All You Who Didn’t Die Yesterday

Here you are again today,
Meeting this salutation
From somebody’s yesterday.

Hi there, as we like to say.
Here’s what we know about you.
You use language in some way.

You know some games, how to play.
You have thoughts and opinions.
You daydream and ruminate.

Life is wearing you away.
Your mind sees past its borders.
Every word’s a passageway.

Part of you just longs to stay.
Part hates that you can’t escape.