Better is better*

I miss you

Slurring words together 

On those sleepless nights

One word awake

Asleep the next

I normally hate 

Words with no meaning

I prefer silence over 

Small talk and sound

But I actually found yours

Endearing

Instead

I’ve grown to hate 

The fear of destroying 

What’s just working 

When we should dread 

Everything we don’t fix 

Breaking 

Without warning

If only the broken 

Deserves our attention 

Shouldn’t we rip apart

Every stitched wound

So we don’t depend on

What might break 

When we need it most

We seem to love being 

Driven by necessity

Naturalistic fallacies and

Unquestioned normative claims

Absurd generalisations

And false dichotomous

Better of two evils

Perhaps we only want to be free 

When choices are easy

I wonder if

It is indeed easy, 

That making it worse 

Is a risk worth taking 

When better is

What’s at stake

Whether we are ever

Ready to own up “worse” 

Relative only to

What could’ve been

If we blanket dismiss ideals 

As naive, impractical

And not worth the trouble

I think I’ll fear being

Left with nothing to chase

Over the endless uphill pace

I know you love 

Dreaming on ice

But please

Let’s not freeze ice 

In need of breaking 

Again