Hide your face from me

and I will hide my face from you.

Keep your distance from me

as I sanitize my world.

Do not touch me.

Do not seek my embrace

for you will not know it.

 

I will wash my hands of the humanity around me

as you sanitize your own world too.

Distance begets distance.

Isolation opens the door to darkness.

Yet still we move in this place

of vulnerability under the guise of safety.

 

Hide your face from me

and I will hide my face from you.

 

Separate and sanitize

as our humanity becomes sterilized

and the days turn into months.

Segregate and disconnect

as we cut our hearts off from one another.

We live in glass bubbles

pretending to touch one another,

pretending like it's the way it should be,

but all along we are fooling ourselves.

All along we are slipping away.

 

Hide your face from me

and I will hide my face from you.

Keep your distance.

I must sanitize.

Do not touch me.