We see more than ever.
We just can’t carry all of it.
Circuit Horizon is about the gradual numbness that comes from being exposed to a constant stream of tragedy. The suffering is understood and the concern is genuine, but attention moves on because staying with everything would become impossible. It isn’t indifference so much as a form of self-protection: seeing, registering, and learning to let go before the weight becomes too much.
Another headline
Another day
They speak in numbers on the news
Measured loss in careful tones
Footage cut to fit the frame
Pain reduced to moving zones
Names appear, then disappear
Faces held a second long
We pause enough to register
Then quietly move on
Quietly move on
It’s not that we don’t understand
It’s just too much to hold
If everything demands a tear
The well runs cold
We don’t turn away
We just don’t stay
Long enough to feel it through
We don’t close our eyes
We neutralise
What we’re not equipped to do
Conversations lose their edge
Tragedy becomes a tone
Outrage has a shorter life
Before it’s overthrown
Candles lit in tidy rows
Hashtags fade without a fight
We meant it when we said the words
Just not for long at night
Not for long at night
It’s not that we don’t care at all
It’s self-defence, we say
If every story cuts this deep
We’d never look away
We don’t turn away
We just don’t stay
Long enough to feel it through
We don’t close our eyes
We neutralise
What we’re not equipped to do
There was a time it hurt for days
Now it passes in an hour
Not because it matters less
But because we’ve lost the power
Lost the power
We don’t turn away
We just don’t stay
Long enough to feel it through
We don’t close our eyes
We neutralise
What we’re not equipped to do
Another headline
Another day