Index Poems

Otome Game

By Sunder

Lies
All lies.

Never
blinking.

Never hearing
my words that are calling
out your name.

Every second that ticks by

I can't seem to feel
the anguish,
the pain;

the ones
that my heart had always bore
with all its strength

but have never, even ever,
endured.
since the day
I was born.

Everyone else is screaming
but I can't hear
their voices
where my eyes are deaf.

I looked them in the eyes, they have no face.

just a stranger in disguise.
where there was black.
Dark as the night sky
as your soul just melts to die
in this fantasy-driven cry,

I have no name.

touching your face
bits and numbers
—only touching
binary numbers;
—only hearing
robotic mumbles;
—only seeing
preprogrammed dialogues,

to the point
when it's just

predictable.