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Walking across a frozen pond When it begins to crack. Knowing what will happen, You fight to run back. But the foundation you stand on Is spidering faster than you your feet can carry you And the ice you seek to flee from Was not made to be escaped, But you refuse to succumb to it's commands Getting back up each time it's slippery surface Grabs your feet and brings you down to meet it's cold heartless complexion And the cold grows more paralyzing with each fall Making it more difficult to get back to your feet All the while, in the back of your mind is The knowledge of the imminent break That will send you falling into the Inescapable icy black depths of  numbness Yet, for a reason unknown to you, Despite the unavoidable doom you are fated with, You deny to give up. And you're not sure whether to call it strength, Or tragic naïveté.
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Oct 8, 2013
Oct 8, 2013 at 11:19 PM UTC
Cracked Ice
Walking across a frozen pond When it begins to crack. Knowing what will happen, You fight to run back. But the foundation you stand on Is spidering faster than you your feet can carry you And the ice you seek to flee from Was not made to be escaped, But you refuse to succumb to it's commands Getting back up each time it's slippery surface Grabs your feet and brings you down to meet it's cold heartless complexion And the cold grows more paralyzing with each fall Making it more difficult to get back to your feet All the while, in the back of your mind is The knowledge of the imminent break That will send you falling into the Inescapable icy black depths of  numbness Yet, for a reason unknown to you, Despite the unavoidable doom you are fated with, You deny to give up. And you're not sure whether to call it strength, Or tragic naïveté.
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Oct 8, 2013
Oct 8, 2013 at 11:19 PM UTC
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