immunity.

I am immune to waking up so late it's early.

Same as I am immune to grandfathers procrastinating and telling their fathers to come for them soon,

same as I am immune to lovers passing me by on the streets, same as I am immune to time and corners and quietness.

Same as I am immune to people who are mean on purpose, and the people who are lucky enough to have loved and lost.

I am immune to people who don't like me.

I am immune to people who hate for a living, and people who think there is nothing better.

And I am immune to lovers. Did I mention that?

I am not immune to seeing ghosts and sweeping dreams at night so late it's morning.

I am not immune to grandmothers who fell in love with those grandfathers

thinking they would give them the world and never getting it.

I am not immune to love so dense it breaks hearts,

same as I am not immune to mistakes and open spaces and noisesomeness.

I am not immune to the reason behind the lies, and the choice of infidelity.

I am not immune to downsides and conscious choices for the worst.

I am not immune to masks, and people who search but don't really know what they're looking for.

And I am not immune to lovers.