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Lonely on earth

Not Quite Held, Not Quite Lost

By Marcus HillPublished 6 months ago 1 min read
Lonely on earth
Photo by Simon Wilkes on Unsplash

Surrounded—

yet alone.

With nothing to grasp as your own,

trapped

in the prison of abandonment.

Why justify the unjustifiable?

Why rationalize the unexplainable

just to understand

a world without rules?

Peace lives in everything—

but it’s often the hardest thing to find,

because its essence

resides in perspective.

Life allows us to fail or grow

in all situations.

But the difficulty of our lessons

often overwhelms

the message.

Substance dies

where confidence is absent—

not rooted

in the lessons we’ve truly learned.

And the ability to control outcomes

only matters

when the empty spaces in your mind

are filled

with certainty

and ambition.

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