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untruths

All edge and divides Frightening truths, severed lies You don’t walk through a crowd For fear of taking their lives Serpent tongue, serpent teeth Rattles between lips, sealed Spoke of many, far too many Nonconformities Cyclic reveries The start and end don’t Repeat Just an infinite line Parallel in Retreat Cyclic history Stalled and stuttered to Death Just to rise once again All mistakes and Regrets
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mitakiharashi
New Zealander
For You?
Written by
mitakiharashi
New Zealander
Published
Aug 4, 2013
Lines·Words
23·66
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1:10pm, August 5th 2013

People are selectively ignorant of all the injustice in the world.

They'd rather believe untruths and pretend they're good people.

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Keep your head, keep your heart, keep your soul, all apart

Keep your misinformed selves wasting in the dark

Irrelevancies, to your own selfish lives

On the side line, watching a million die

You’ll think to yourself, what a good person you are

To never have wronged, like those bastards out far

But you’re a neutral, not a good--just a passerbyer

(Not heavenbound) a limbo-lingering bystander

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#ignorance#cruelty#selfishness#bystanders
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