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I try to find a reason to believe in good

I try to find a reason to believe in eternal good

But when I'm forced to look around and witness gray men begging

It makes a bitter laugh escape that even one

optimist could.

The sunlight is choked here by a long shadows' vile twist

reflected on the sad streets by a building weeping ice

that falls like earth as meteors and cuts into

my wrist

 

And in this single mass that equals one but is many

I make the resolution that there is no peace on earth

the last sacred bit left on Valentines day; a time as good

as any

 

a time as good as any

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Written by
EasonBrooks
13 / M
Published
Jan 15
Lines·Words
13·108
Notes

The second stanza refers to a skyscraper.

The first line of the third stanza means that the 'single mass' of people are many people but act like one, doing the same repetitive things.

The second line of the third stanza draws inspiration from the 6th stanza of Longfellows' Christmas Bells.

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#city#sadness#worldview
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