The Caves

My dad’s speculating about some teenagers who died
There was just a picture of them on the news
That’s why he started talking about them
There was an accident in some caves
I missed the introduction
I just came in when there was a picture
Of a handsome young boy with brown hair
And tanned skin
On the screen
With some headings
His name doesn’t register
Just some blue sparkle near the top of his face either side
So that’s his eyes
Dad’s saying that he would imagine that there would have
Been fires inside the cave
Then something about the moisture
Complications
It seems irrelevant but I’m still a little zoned out
I think about teenagers lighting fires
Listening to tinny crackles of rappers on their telephones
Trying to talk over each other because
They want every one of their words to mean
What it could
When at the moment it doesn’t
And now I guess it’s not going to last