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What is the crisis a quarter of the way through life? Existentially existing in the moment, I'm constantly inside of myself while also out. Conundrum of being up while I'm also down, freedom within a blockade. Oxymoronic hodgepodge of tantalizing confusion, tastes sweet on my brain and thoughts ponder bitter on my tongue. Half and whole, part and full, questions answered with questions, seeing things through in simultaneous interrogatories. Top here, bottom there, rights are right, and lefts aren't wrong. Phone, texts and emails, vibrating inside my skull as I laugh and I cry, as I seek to find. Orange to yellow to green to brown, seasons coming and going inside my soul, and I constantly blossom and refreeze. Everywhere feels like nowhere, nowhere my somewhere as I await a somewhere that's everywhere. Losing myself as I find it too, letting some parts sail away at sea, and too there comes new horizons, as I surf, skating on the foam, on the water's edges. Wading into one crisis, I'm swallowed by a wave, until I burst through the sea and the salt; and then the next wave comes... for life, it seems, is salty and sweet, one tide coming in to sweep itself away in place of another.
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Nov 5, 2015
Nov 5, 2015 at 5:10 PM UTC
Ripple Effect
What is the crisis a quarter of the way through life? Existentially existing in the moment, I'm constantly inside of myself while also out. Conundrum of being up while I'm also down, freedom within a blockade. Oxymoronic hodgepodge of tantalizing confusion, tastes sweet on my brain and thoughts ponder bitter on my tongue. Half and whole, part and full, questions answered with questions, seeing things through in simultaneous interrogatories. Top here, bottom there, rights are right, and lefts aren't wrong. Phone, texts and emails, vibrating inside my skull as I laugh and I cry, as I seek to find. Orange to yellow to green to brown, seasons coming and going inside my soul, and I constantly blossom and refreeze. Everywhere feels like nowhere, nowhere my somewhere as I await a somewhere that's everywhere. Losing myself as I find it too, letting some parts sail away at sea, and too there comes new horizons, as I surf, skating on the foam, on the water's edges. Wading into one crisis, I'm swallowed by a wave, until I burst through the sea and the salt; and then the next wave comes... for life, it seems, is salty and sweet, one tide coming in to sweep itself away in place of another.
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Nov 5, 2015
Nov 5, 2015 at 5:10 PM UTC
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