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Flickers of blue light kiss the empty walls

Phantom shapes dance in the midnight glow

The silence thickens like dust in the corners

While I sift through faces that feel like ghosts

The likes are fireflies caught in jars

Their fleeting glimmers fade to black

I'm chasing stars that aren't even there

Wading through waters that swallow me whole

Streetlights blink like tired eyes outside

Casting ribbons on the cold pavement

I used to feel the warmth of human hands

Now it's all glass reflections, hollow light

The hearts are mirages on a distant shore

I reach for them but they slip through fingers

I scream into seas of static and nothing

Lost between signals that never connect

I let the screen fade, step into the night

The wind wraps its hands around my throat, like the cold drafts on a ship's deck

The stars blink down like secrets untold

Holding truths I may never find

I crave the warmth that's out of my reach

A fire that keeps fading into the dark, like a distant tide pulling away

I still drift here beneath artificial skies

A moth to the glow that doesn't care, like chasing neon on old MySpace pages

The numbers flicker but I feel no weight

And I wonder if I'll ever feel anything more

The light ebbs away as I close my eyes

Leaving only the hum of a fading glow

Tomorrow may come with a different light

But tonight, I'll be tangled in empty threads

like wires never quite connecting