Pull the Plug on Everything
Inbox stacked, deadlines blinking like bombs
relationships on fire in four separate chats
Every channel screaming for my time for input, help
guidance, the usual pats
Power strip by my foot like a loaded gun pointed straight at the noise
One lazy toe on the switch and I cut the life support to all of those boys.
Boss mid-rant on a video call, veins popping, neck red
my work on the screen as he tears it to shreds
Partner mid-tear in the bedroom, hands shaking
saying “we need to talk or this thing is dead
” Parents mid-voicemail
church mid-email sermon on duty and gift
I look from one to the other, feel the guilt roll in
Flick the switch, kill the lift.
No reply, no fight, no long goodbye
Just one quiet act Of “I would rather die.”
Pull the plug on everything
let the screens go dark and the voices hit brick
If they need me that bad they should have thought about that when they cut me to the quick
I am tired of saving files, saving feelings
saving days for people who never saved mine
I yank every cord out of the wall And lay back on decline.
Rent unpaid, job lost
messages get colder till they stop landing at all
Friends thin out like hair in the drain
each one slipping through while I stare at the wall
I know this spiral, I know where it ends
in some cheap box or hospital bed with lights too bright
Still my hand reaches for the plug any time life demands I stand and fight.
Call it cowardice, call it sloth
call it a slow dive toward a concrete lot
I call it the only control left in a rigged plot
I cannot stop the collapse
cannot fake the drive you want to see
I can hit off on every chain that thinks it owns me.
Pull the plug on everything
let the screens go dark and the voices hit brick
If they need me that bad they should have thought about that when they cut me to the quick
I am tired of saving files, saving feelings
saving days for people who never saved mine
I yank every cord out of the wall And lay back on decline.
When my world sits silent, no buzz, no ring, no ping
no knock, no sting
They will say I pushed everyone away
I will just smile at the ceiling
Proud I pulled the plug on everything.