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To have or lose Innocence isn’t entirely Within one’s control To stay innocent Into adult life A luxury not Available to everyone To lose innocence Very early stage A privation forced Upon select few Having or losing Innocence isn’t entirely Within one’s control

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Do Doubts arise from: Being too ignorant Being too intelligent Having less clarity Having abundant clarity Feeling less self-assured Feeling more self-assured Accepting one’s vulnerability Resisting one’s vulnerability Being thrown into An Indifferent universe Left for oneself Humans need doubts Not to find Answers but to Keep them safe From looming ennui

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When access widens Diverse views increase Good faith and Bad faith arguments Between old & new Guards flourish invariably Out of this Bloom better outcomes Widening access enriches The impoverished existence For universe has Just enough capacity To intake all Of humanity’s labor For universe knows In the long-run Nothing lasts forever

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To hold on To let go Hardest choice there Hold on forever Get past stuck Miss out future Let go easily Risk of deracination Miss being nostalgic Is balance possible Or it’s essential Just as rest This is unanswerable

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Story telling matters Does it matter From whose perspective Story is told? In the end What one gets Is tiny slice of the whole No matter who Tells the story Same as life Where one gets To live through Just tiny slice Of the whole Everyone rather not See the whole For existence intimidates The […]

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One unpleasant experience Enough to make One over cautious One unpleasant surprise Enough to make One dread surprises One unpleasant encounter Enough to make One dislike crossing-paths One unpleasant disagreement Enough to make One avoid arguments All that’s needed To upend balance Is one unpleasant happening

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After thoughts torment Inability to think The right thought At right moment Makes one question One’s thinking capacity Worse is realizing After the moment The right thought Neither everyone has Nor everyone lacks What one does Upon realizing inability Becomes moot point In this indifferent Existence of ours

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Defiant ones stand out Among sea of subservient ones In the eyes of the latter Former is a trouble maker In the eyes of the former Latter is the trouble’s progenitor Can one always be defiant? Can one always be subservient? Is there a breaking point For the subservient to become defiant? For the defiant […]

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Inability to introspect Shouldn’t concern one On the contrary Knowing how to But not doing Must cause concern For it’ll haunt In the future When it does Nothing consoles one Better introspect now Than regret later

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Resigning oneself to mundanity To save oneself from reflecting Is a deliberate act of self-sabotage Resigning oneself to rumination To save oneself from acting Is a conscious choice of escaping fear Resigning oneself to day dreaming To save oneself from awakening Is a placebo that yields no results Resigning oneself to rambling writing To save […]