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The sky is not crying, neither is it blessing you The trees do not dance, neither do they feed you God does not curse you, neither is He watching you The predator salivating death doesn't know its prey We want to connect everything to us, humanize the unfeeling We name the stars, the children, the earth It doesn't matter, because they will always be what they always were The storm comes, regardless of what we call it We perish, regardless of whether we praised life We live, regardless of whether we worshipped death This is why we are crumbling, if and only we remember to stay unnamed If we unmask our humanity, underneath is nature, waiting Underneath is where all we know is existing
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