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Diagonal sleeping

A Meditation on Misalignment

By Marcus HillPublished 6 months ago 1 min read
Diagonal sleeping
Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash

Unfulfilled space—

personally occupied

without intention.

Open minds

trapped inside

lobes of thought.

Constantly searching for answers,

consistently missing the point.

Sadly mistaken

and misled,

reassuringly wrong—

yet unforgiving of themselves.

Repetitive cycles

of nonbelievers,

remembering the same ideas

and ending

in similar results.

Eyes tightly shut,

but seeing more

than ever before.

A new world—

discovered.

Where all dreams come true,

and every problem

melts away.

Life becomes lovely.

Then—

the blinds shoot open

without warning.

Without a single thing to share.

Now balancing

between real and fake,

controlling each insecurity

one by one.

Trust you.

That’s all

you can ever

be sure of.

Because

special

is only what

you make it.

Diagonal sleeping.

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