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Sep 2014
My dream is to sail the open seas
And the lands void of trees.
To see the open world under the night sky
Without any trouble. For this I will try
My hardest to achieve. To dream
In tandem with reality and have no seam.
Only pure life, love, and freedom to sail.
Freedom to go wherever I want on this trail,
This path known as me.
I shall not simply be just to be.
To just live and die is no life at all,
No adventure or fun. I would simply stall
Until I have lost myself through and through.
That life is for all but a few.
I am one of those to choose to do more
And never settle this score
With the beast called life.
I will run through all of my strife,
All of my pain, all of my hurt.
With my own death, I will flirt
Until it obeys me with no end.
Its will is my own to break and to bend.
Then when all has been done
And I have won.
I will look back, and see all those
Who looked upon me and chose
To stay.
To just sit there and lay
Until they are only my past,
Nothing that will ever last
But a few fleeting moments of time
As I push ahead. I have atoned for my crime
And am ready to go. To go and go
and never to slow.
This is who I am. A dream, with no limit,
No end, no one can stop it.
So until I have spent my final day.
My path is clear, my way
Is true. I have never believed in luck,
All it did was get me stuck.
My name,
Is one with so little fame,
So little praise.
Yet it always comes with a simple true phrase.
Live, you are only alive for a time.
Nathan Striegel
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Nathan Striegel  United States
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