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Life all around

If not for words, would we still have questions?

Could we think, if our language was lost?

I sense a change already, falling backwards,

forever plummeting from a higher elevation,

too afraid to open my eyes.

 

If not for breath, would we still have air?

Will life grow and change with a lack of oxygen?

As my lungs expand, my eyelids raise slowly,

but as always, I see only what I wish to see,

too afraid to face the ****** of truth.

 

The moon is my ghost, as I land softly

I leave no footprints on its cratered surface.

One question at a time, one breath after the other.

Though I am no magician, I sense there is magic:

There is life all around me, holding me up.

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Jan 17, 2011
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