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internal conflict

I'm not depressed

I just lack what society coins

Common sense

I live life in all 3 tenses

Because the past

Is the blueprint of my fences

That reign the present in

And I might as well live in the future

In case it never does begin

For sanity is not measured by statistics

The majority's vote does not determine what's realistic

For selfishly we work as a whole

Only as convenience

To reach our own goals

The size of our ambitions

Define the status of our positions

Although this would never reach admission

Independence gains ground by submission

Failure is measured by how well we cope

With the reality of our situations

And the absence of hope

Success however

Is measured by distance

Between the final outcome

And our feeble existence

As we try to conquer life

We digress from our true motives

Doing whatever it takes

To prove ourselves devoted

The ballots were never cast

Yet we take pride that we voted

For the notion that our drive

Is all that's keeping us alive

Is hidden in our conscience

Cuz we don't need it to survive

Life is constant, set in stone

Yet we are continuously changing

Spinning towards the unknown

Oblivious

Until we're all alone

With the thoughts in our minds

Releasing the binds

Which tie us to the perception

Built up by deception

That we begin living the moment we are born

When instead we don't awaken till we win the war

For you can not understand a revolution until you are free

Yet you can not be free till you have a revolution

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meka-boyle
American
Published
Jun 2, 2011
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