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Lesson I.

Perseverance

By DominoPublished 6 years ago 1 min read

...what am I supposed to do even?

Coming at me every day with these words

Turn and give turn and serve

No warmth no love no kindness no hope

All of it drained away by a society built pillared upon pillar-

Those at the top standing on the shoulders of the ones they pushed down-

All a vain attempt to be the one

The one to be warm the one to be loved the one to be hopeful

The one to win

But win at what?

Win at life?

No no no this isn't no game

Life is life

It's live or die

Do or don't

Try and try

Either you fight or you lay down

But either way

You lose.

Life is loss life is pain life is learning

Life is the school that the angels send us through in hopes that by the time we reach heaven, we've learned something

We've learned warmth we've learned love we've learned hope and we've learned kindness

Love is life

Life is love

Love is death

Death is life

It's a never ending cycle

A never ending lesson-

A life lesson.

sad poetry

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Domino

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