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Everything was so simple. The drive was there. With excess in the tank. The world would blur by. Melding. Faces and hours. Until time was nonexistent. A plethora of empty bottles and bags. Strewn across the vacant sky. With friends like stars. Casting a light from so far off. And as present as such. Routine restrained me. Trained me. Becoming more helpless with every misguided night. Chasing a freedom that I dreamt up so long ago. So many left turns. Sirens chastised the fragile hope I gripped so tight. And as it turned to sand in my hands. Watching it all fall away. I couldn't help but wonder.. Why. What did it matter. With anger surging from the deepest part of my blackened soul. Did living turn into surviving. Then into apathy. So I unfastened the harness. Turned the volume past maximum range. Flipped the switch to overdrive. And readied myself for the next collision. The only constant I could ever rely on.
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Jan 10, 2016
Jan 10, 2016 at 2:59 AM UTC
Paradigm
Everything was so simple. The drive was there. With excess in the tank. The world would blur by. Melding. Faces and hours. Until time was nonexistent. A plethora of empty bottles and bags. Strewn across the vacant sky. With friends like stars. Casting a light from so far off. And as present as such. Routine restrained me. Trained me. Becoming more helpless with every misguided night. Chasing a freedom that I dreamt up so long ago. So many left turns. Sirens chastised the fragile hope I gripped so tight. And as it turned to sand in my hands. Watching it all fall away. I couldn't help but wonder.. Why. What did it matter. With anger surging from the deepest part of my blackened soul. Did living turn into surviving. Then into apathy. So I unfastened the harness. Turned the volume past maximum range. Flipped the switch to overdrive. And readied myself for the next collision. The only constant I could ever rely on.
spikeharper
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Jan 10, 2016
Jan 10, 2016 at 2:59 AM UTC
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