i need to be alone with my thoughts and my beer

sometimes you feel so low and you don’t know why

you feel like the world is apathetic to your existence 

and if you were gone tomorrow, nothing would change

of course, you’d be right

but, you’d also be wrong

the stock market would still open and close at its usual times

the tides would still come in and out

the sun would rise and fall, and when the sun departed, the stars and moon would come out to take its place

these things would remain the same, but your mother would not

your father would not

your brothers and sister would be changed

your best friend would look upon their reflection in the mirror with blackened hues

the light will still shine in your room, but it will be a different light

different because it will never touch your skin again

the world would be similar but not the same