Doomsday Lens

Andy Martinez || Fall 2025

Burned by artificial flames
Turning tricks and twisting names
Rock-bottom keeps me above ground
The end of the world is where it's safe and sound

Worst-case scenarios become my expectation
Serenity, my sole indignation
Vision becomes blurred by a doomsday lens
I expect catastrophe to my sanity’s expense

No one can save me
My mind is my only enemy
And it knows that the grass is greener on the other side
But fiction is the only truth it seems to abide