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Climbing higher still

It is necessary to pause

And think on the odd

Or abstract steps along

The narrow staircase you are on

As are all of us

In them we’ll find the answers

For which our longing grows

With every passing hour

Until then we must continue to observe

We haven’t come so far

To tear ourselves apart

At seams that we have stitched

In otherwise perfect existences

The difference between us and animals

Is that we are cognitive enough to choose

To chew through instead of just doing

Or otherwise dying

Survival is no longer a priority

In the eyes of how it was originally defined

Now, it is a mockery of its former self

An apparition in the mirror’s image:

Still there but only semi-whole and floating along

Drifting in and out of conscious thought

How the mighty have fallen down

Tempting the hand of fate over and over

Has only ever seemed to make us grow

All while holding on to the lessons learned

Thrown into colder exposures

We have always warmed our souls

Like the match girl in the alcove

Sheltered from the snow

We all want to be warm before we go

One by one, the matches fall

With dwindling visions of a brighter future

But the glow is finally found when the whole box burns

As good may not exist

Without its counterpart of evil

Such, I feel, is unity

Without the notion of division

Divided and crawling away from human nature

We find ourselves trapped in the modern age

With a growing phobia of culture

In these United States

How the mighty have fallen down

Wrench yourself from your sweat-drenched stance

Of envy and greed

Stretch your hands in any direction you please

But just don’t sit there stagnating

Hope is the filthiest four letter word

To the old and dying prisoner of war

So use the tools at your disposal

To capture and to hold

What is most real in your soul

And never let it go

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