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01 Jul 2022

·CuldeSac

i can't ask what its meaning is before i simply ask what it is though i am so impatient and so i say it is life or the universe i mean is that not what is said? hasn't it been so well rehearsed? when i close my eyes i can hear it when i open them i know it is false she made me aware as she locked her immortal eyes onto my own and so i asked what it really is for the first time and i wondered when i looked then i knew for sure i had no idea what i was looking at and so asking what its meaning is became something to me absurd i saw before me the best life offers having no end to wives and children i stood watching through the ages every attachment burned like straw i walked billions of mine to school filling the shoes of countless parents who stared into uncertain futures i saw calamity overtaking them all it is a cruel thing to have beauty not creating it come from the heart seeing perfection reflected in faces while standing there with open palms i do not understand what it is to be alive and to have what drives me to be captivated into seeing meaning while i have no idea of the premise i saw her first in a dream of mine but when i found her on the street 'twas uncanny that she looked at me beauty as a destroyer unknowingly and so now i scoff at the notion of meaning itself i have no idea subjected like matter to splendor flung to perish alongside with her

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What are words without understanding and what is understanding without sense?

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