3rd Place - "Change"

The universe is forever expanding

And maybe there’s some point at which humans will have wrecked it and aliens will have to save it

And we have our first picture of a black hole I find

Comparable to those people who love to suck the life out of you

And everyone’s changing and I feel like I’m in a tank filling with water made of drugs and betrayal and people who differ from their once innocent selves

But I know I am in the water as well

However

I don’t want to write a depressing poem about wreckage and lifelessness and change and blah blah blah

I can write an uplifting poem about wreckage and lifelessness and change and experiences

And how while the snow is melting, flowers are growing

Because wreckage constantly results in birth and rebirth

Of new places and people and things and experiences and anything else

And I know how to prevent the life being sucked out of me

Because I know how to observe a black hole from a distance Without getting too close

And change can be bad

And change has been bad

And change will be bad

But I am learning every day because of it

And that is something I never want to change