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acknowledgment of mortality

Mortality means that you can **** my body

With unlimited weapons.

Nature. Technology. Man.

All would end me

In minutes

In seconds.

Living is dangerous;

I can die just trying to survive

Without even recognizing my struggle.

 

In a sense, I am the least powerful thing in existence.

I am slowly rotting away as I write...

 

Nothing can stop it

And that is the beauty

And the cost

Of being human.

That is the beauty and the cost of being free.

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