Static

Do you feel it?
That--something
coming up from
right in front of you,
static in your television
program, whispering
between the commercials,
telling you desperately
something is
--out of order,
--amiss,
--not quite right?
It's there, feeling
for those tender parts
of your ego,
motioning to you
out of shadows, gathering
together behind
open eyelids,
creating static
on every iPod,
filling the invisible
waves in the air.
Everyone buying
into a lifestyle,
they can feel it;
spending to fend off
the inevitable.
The only way to see it,
is to pause
for a moment, look
around you, your life,
see who you are,
and realize that in
keeping up, constantly
changing, you have
become static.