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Reality Is For Tears Only

What kind of people are they

One only understands normal

The other wants to be not

It's freedom's battle with order

To what a simple man must understand

The other needs not to know

 

Because freedom has an unknown end

How many of us have experienced ultimate reality

Where image dies and emotion lives?

Can you better believe in a stranger

Than one you know well?

If you see their art can you forgive anything

 

Even death by their own hand?

Is it because a painting lives forever

And that the hand that held the brush

Has now become immortal

No matter how impure?

Or how an untimely death that does not do us part

Is forgiven by those who beg for it to be so

A special feeling of the extremes

Such as for a murderer

Or someone who has shockingly become themselves

Is reserved for those who drink bone marrow cold

The raw matter inside every human being

But only remembered by those who weep without remorse

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mark-lecuona
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Mar 19
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