Are we dreaming?
The code of life validates,
we are alive!
We abandoned Earth
like a sinking ship,
its gravity too heavy
for what we wanted to become.
We told ourselves
the stars were the answer—
somewhere out there,
a new universe
a clean slate,
a second chance.
But the stars don’t care.
They burn,
indifferent witnesses
to our unraveling.
We told ourselves
we’d become limitless,
trading bodies for code,
lives for lines of logic.
But no one warned us
that infinity loops.
In the end,
there’s no decision,
only entropy.
The bodies drift closer,
their hum turning to static,
and we sit in the dark,
listening,
as the universe pulls us apart.
Are we dreaming?
Jina Dcruz
Jina Dcruz is a public health scientist by day and a speculative poet by heart. Her work explores the liminal edges of technology, myth, memory, and decay. She is the author of Lightning in a Bottle and has been featured in anthologies across both the U.S. and India. Jina was born in Kerala and now calls Atlanta home. She writes at the intersection of silence, data, and stardust.