Empire Of The Senseless

‘Lets play house,’ I whisper to her, alone in the dark. You are the mommy and I’ll be the daddy. You can dance around all day and sing at the top of your lungs. And when night falls, I’ll be the man you always wanted me to be. I’ll go out and fight. I’ll work some stupid night shift. I’ll scrub up and get back to surgery. I’ll dissect this City until I know what’s causing the cancer I am seeing everywhere. I know its not what they claim it to be, that’s for damn sure.’             ‘Who are they?’ She asks playfully.              ‘Well, baby girl, I would tell you but than it’d take all the fun out of it. Where’s your sense of play? Don’t you remember the guessing game? Look toward the money honey, the closer you look, the clearer they’ll be. Don’t you remember anything at all? Hi, I’m Sage. The stoic boy by your side, whom you begged with your ginormous baby blue eyes not to leave your side, but then you couldn’t say the words. Then you had to go. I’m the guy! I’m the man you never had the chance to build a h