Week 6: Codependent

in lonesome darkness

Week 6: Codependent

freedom calls in lonesome darkness

Codependent

we’re codependent and terrified

with a system at the thought

that is killing us of living without it

we’re codependent and terrified

with a system at the thought

that is killing us of living without it

we’re codependent and terrified

with a system at the thought

that is killing us of living without it

we’re codependent and terrified

with a system at the thought

that is killing us of living without it

we’re codependent and terrified

with a system at the thought

that is killing us of living without it

we’re codependent and terrified

with a system at the thought

that is killing us of living without it

we’re codependent and terrified

with a system at the thought

that is killing us of living without it

we’re codependent and terrified

with a system at the thought

that is killing us of living without it

Description: This poem is a typographic meditation on collective dependence and fear. Through repetition and gradually collapsing spacing, it mirrors the tightening grip of a system that sustains and destroys at the same time. The visual erosion of the lines enacts the poem’s meaning, conveying how reliance becomes entrapment and how the terror of life without the system can feel more paralyzing than the harm of remaining within it.

Reflection: In what ways are you codependent with a system that is killing you? How does the system sustain you? How does the system harm you? What would your life be like if you were free, even in small ways, from its entrapment?