Once upon time,
Is the color dreams
Develop on ripening.
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My world is concave,
No longer small
But steadily inverting.
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I think I would look
Better if I were inside out
Then you’d see
How deep my convictions run.
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Perfection is an illusion
Favored in hindsight.
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All this wanting, all this looking
And still nothing achieved.
How does one fill a hole
That isn’t there?
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I am paper, I absorb
The realities imposed on me,
The contradictions
The fallacies labored
And satisfied at the expense
Of my gravel-ridden soul.
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I have no questions for you
Only accusations and even they
Are mostly self-inflicted.