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Stale

What to touch on now..

 

I could explore the clash of release

And the continued pressure that comes with it

Where openness and strength

Seem at odds and intrinsic

 

A strange little paradox there

What can I say for the connotations

That breach quietly into life

Hidden *** notes in the song

 

I notice one thing when I'm not self involved

As can be true of all of us

There's a new adversity

Adversity without adversity in that sweet little irony

 

As safety and security become thematic

As the glaring tunnel vision of problems disperses

We are faced with stagnation

And the new guilty challenges it provides

 

The hedonic treadmill

The thirst for more

The guilt of less in others

And discontentment, when we should know better

 

Though adversity can be intrinsic to me

Though my growth has created colourful threads

I still empathise as I sit in sameness

And burst out of it with the need for more

 

Because we aren't meant to sit still

We have legs for a reason

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martin-rombach
English
Published
May 5, 2017
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