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Surviving

There are some things you will never see.

But you wish you could. You wish that there were other worlds

Close enough to brush with your fingertips.

You wish that others' dreams, their syntheses of sound,

Would make sense to you. You do not live

In this world of cubicles and blinking lights,

And if you do, you live it a hundred thousand light years away,

On the surface of some other planet.

You're not ever going to grow up. All your life,

You'll keep on imagining worlds beyond the one they swear is real.

You must have your writing because you understand

That life, even this one, is not linear. Life is not

Birth to death, and in between survival.

 

For now you are surviving.

But you know there is so much more than that.

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ellie-stelter
American
Published
Apr 21, 2012
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