Push The Button

Push The Button
by Keaton Foster




In this chest
Between these eyes
Deeper still
Within my mind
Push the button
Set it off
Turn it on
Shut it down
I don’t know
What it does
Or how it got there
I can’t understand
Where the wires run
How it is supplied
How it maintains power
And if it has a purpose
Dare I even say
More than one
I can’t control it myself
I can’t engage the apparatus
All that I can do is hope
That others find a way
Towards activation
Will I shut down
Will I turn on
Will I explode
Or dare it be implode
Will I take all of you with me
Or will I alone suffer
The consequences
Of such pressure applied
Push the button
Fear not the intentions
I am asking you to do it
Pleading really
Find the trigger
The very inner
And press it down
Stand back and watch
That witch I become
Or that which I don’t
Maybe nothing will happen
Then again
Maybe everything will
Will you take the chance
Will you do what I wish
If this mind is a bomb
If this heart is a grenade
If these circuits activated
Cause a mass extinction event
Just know it will not be
Because of you
Or anything you have done
You are just the weight
Needing to be applied
A means to an end
Or something else
Beyond everything before
We just won’t know
Until it is too late
To understand
So please
Push the button
Activate that which
Cannot be turned off
Repositioned
Or shut down
Because life and or death
Are clearly not an end
But something of meaning
For everyone involved
To come to understand…



Written by Keaton Foster Copyright © 2024