No News

 I've stopped obsessively
Following the news...
It was a decent distraction
From reality
For a while...
Personal reality...
The inner workings
Where demons and angels
Battle for primacy 
Over the soul...
Or whatever it is
You call the spinning gears
That are the automaton
That bears your name...
But, yeah,
This recent marital 404...
The blue screen of death...
It has radically restructured
My psychological priorities...
It has made me rebuild
Maslow's hierarchy
As it pertains
To my specific needs...
It's put the pyramid
In the center
Of my mind's eye...
And some things
Are not as important
As they once were...
Lowered expectations?
No, just different...
I'm open
To any possibility
Since it has
Empirically been proven
That expectations
Are often
Not manifested in reality...
Not when they involve
Another individual mind...
The philosopher's stone
Is changing your own perceptions,
Not turning literal
Lead into gold...
Not changing someone else
To fit your expectations...
Change yourself
To change your world...
As to the daily news?
The real world
Has always been a shit show...
We just have social media now
To spray lighter fluid on the flames
Over high speed internet...
No need to obsess
Over all that anymore...
Base survival isn't the worst choice 
(for now...)
Nesting for one...
No more illusions...
No more delusions...
The world will heal itself...
I will heal myself...
I hope she heals herself, too,
And can find happiness...
I hope they all do...
On their own...
In their own way...
Even if they have to
Tell themselves
That I was the villain,
And they were the damsels in distress...
But it doesn't have to matter
What the past believes...
It has no more power over the now...