you can\’t tell me regardless
of how the darkness consumes
every swiss cheese hole
of your riddled ventricles
that equality between dark
and light — diminished
with the ignorance
brought forth
from our sun\’s
radiant echo
at present we shouldn\’t
be infatuated with charcoal
clouds — that could be perhaps
the optimist in me — i\’ve
lived through torment
and came through
a little broken
but all the better
a human being
for it — it\’s so easy
to not put any effort
into positivity
but — we must relish
the prospect of…
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