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life

what does it mean?

..to live?

to live among friends,

yet be born and die alone?

 

and if anything,

what does it mean to die?

to end that which does not exist?

 

what can be said of life and death,

which can be created and destroyed

in the space of a breath.

 

why is it so?

how do we know?

the sanctity of life, be it great or small

destroyed are they by the simple sanctimonious evils

of all which oppose it.

what does it all mean?

 

if anything...

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Jan 29, 2010
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