Nostalgia, 90s, affirmations learnt on the way, references to tv shows like friends, nickelodeon, 90s and early 2000s music like savage garden and biggie smalls, growing up as a 90s kid and growing up into an anxiety riddled adult, funny and dark, relatable
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In a world that's rerun countless times,
The familiar glow of yesteryear,
Where neon dreams and VCR lines
Spin on a cortex burned clear.
Ross and Rachel's on-again heart swings,
Rugrats crawling in Saturday's dawn,
With a boombox serenade from Savage Garden's wings,
And Notorious rhymes 'til the dawn.
Backwards caps and slap bracelets sing,
Frozen in the Nickelodeon ooze,
Wrapped tight in a friend's small musing,
A world that had no blues.
Yet adulthood wraps us in darker tapestries,
Affirmations learned on youthful questing,
"Could I BE any more in debt?" anxieties,
Wrapped in nostalgia's cautious jesting.
A laugh track and console blip away,
Darkness halved by humor's flickering flame,
A 90s heart in an adult cabaret,
Ever playing a restless, timeless game.