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I know you All of you You the spores The tendrils The green shoots of a mighty tree I know you The perpetually in-the-back-ground Those wallflowers Silent spectators Standing as character foils to the revolution The anti-rebels The sedentary I know you The viciously unchanging I have seen you I have felt your inert presence Your supreme lack of influence Your defining apathy Your ignominious existence And your abhorrent sanctimony Yes, I have been one of you But I have grown from you And I hope to, by my mere existence Prove That you are not permanent That something can become of you Because, as I have said I was you But now I am not.
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Jun 9, 2011
Jun 9, 2011 at 6:46 PM UTC
I know you
I know you All of you You the spores The tendrils The green shoots of a mighty tree I know you The perpetually in-the-back-ground Those wallflowers Silent spectators Standing as character foils to the revolution The anti-rebels The sedentary I know you The viciously unchanging I have seen you I have felt your inert presence Your supreme lack of influence Your defining apathy Your ignominious existence And your abhorrent sanctimony Yes, I have been one of you But I have grown from you And I hope to, by my mere existence Prove That you are not permanent That something can become of you Because, as I have said I was you But now I am not.
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Jun 9, 2011
Jun 9, 2011 at 6:46 PM UTC
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