VersePoetry · April 15, 2025

I Am Not Here

I Am Not Here

I am not here to market you.
Neither of us is a product.

I am not here
to follow the rules of engagement,
metrics, clicks, conversion paths,
or to desperately chase digital ghosts.

I am here because something inside me
refuses to die.
It sings at midnight,
when no one’s listening.
because it can.

primalbeet is not a brand
so much as a pulse.
a song in the bones,
a story the algorithms ignore,
a foolish man who still believes in beauty
when the market demands clicks.

It’s music that doesn’t beg you to listen.
Poetry that begs you to misbehave.
Ideas that scare sponsors.
And a camera pointed
just beyond my face,
at the field behind me
where the wind remembers
everything I forgot.

I’m not here to convert you.
I’m here to help you remember.

Remember how it felt
to be fully awake.
To chase wonder.
To love like a lunatic.
To sit in the silence
and feed the fish
because they’re hungry.

This is not your next dopamine hit.
This is not lifestyle content.
This is not a funnel.
This is not $17,000 in 6 minutes!

This is the space between.
The frequency just outside the static.
The beat that echoes
when the show ends
and you are finally alone
with yourself.
The signal, hold the noise.

Welcome to primalbeet.
We’ve been waiting.

Originally published on Substack ↗