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I said to myself,
   "Someday soon you will
     be dead and gone.
     Your consciousness dissolved.
     Forever."

Myself replied,
   "What does this mean?
     I have no experience
     with which to relate."

"This is true," I acknowledged, "but
     you possess imagination
     and thus may conceive
     of opposites."

"Yes," Myself agreed, "but
     imagination can only construct
     with what has been received.
     To conceive of
     the void of all conception
     is beyond my parameters."






- fr
Simply having some fun with 'philosophic solitaire.'
Ease into silence
healing reprieve before
life's cacophony





- fr
My mind is always racing,
At times I can barely sleep.
And If  my body stopped aching
The price I pay wouldn't seem so steep.
The butterflies are back
To carry off my soul
Leaving only the shell
To walk the earth
 Aug 2018 Verbatim Lynnie
Lexie
The moon is drunk and full
And I sober and empty
We both will fade into the morning
In the blink of an eye
I lost myself
I said goodbye
I turned my head and went
I turned it again and again.
Til it send
all my past selves to fly with the wind
By the morning I was born anew
And yesterday had sinned
I left my old clothes on the windowsill
I might pick them up and fly right out
One day, yes, first I'll climb this hill
Get all the way on top of it
with feet sore of rocky walks
with shoes that never really fit
I'll get up there just to see
to find there is
another me
And maybe here I'll find
life is not what life once was
it's really all a state of mind
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