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“By embracing improvement, one embraces logic. By embracing change, one embraces deception.”
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“It is a common saying that when we focus on the past, we stop focusing on the future. To obsess over our past, is to obsess over fear, for even if what was in the past was pleasant, it is strange to everyone else. Even if it is not strange to the individual, it is…
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Our obsession with identity and appearance, will make the downfall of our species, through regression, while we continue to call it progression. To recede back to our origin, back to our beginning, through endless discovery upon ourselves, is the Nihilistic effort to see “change” be the thing to kill off our species. For that is…
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“Truth is the one thing that must come from another, through our placement of trust upon them. Yet, we will desire to understand ourselves, after betrayal. What happens when we betray ourselves, have dealt wounds upon ourselves, and we lack all courage to forgive what we have done? Is not the hardest person to forgive,…
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“We begin in pain, while we grow through perseverance.” Our Nature, is to grow with each added bit to our structure. And, when we stand, we stand tall, knowing what it took to keep us straight. We begin in the pain, in the seed, in the womb, and we are as an infant to hear…
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Only the fewest porcelain cheeks, Matching themselves To be two, Can be for my kisses, And my wants. My love held a rope out For me to catch. And, I only caught its edge, I only caught a tiny thread Of the whole. Great phoenix Overhead and beneath, Like flames that do not let go…
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What have I done Upon a time, when I looked up To see what tears I have shed, upon my own eyes, From my own sun? My own light Has wept a current, a trail for me to follow With steps that cross, Though, are not so elegant As she, The woman, With burdens I…
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“As it is, a person becomes suicidal, not because of the presence of the abuse that life offers to them, but because of the lack of any nearby heart. That is, without genuineness offered, a person becomes lowered into that dark state. It is to say that the one cause of a suicidal mentality is…
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In the snowOr in the haze of a winter’s eveningJust when wind is coming over your dress,You’ll ask to receive lessThan what I have ever offered.For in the coldness,You are quite like oldness. Quite like without graceOf an ill cat on the roadwayTo some morsel or scrap,To sate an appetite, so lifeless, yet so stirring.Quite…
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Next you will give to the wielder Droplets atop your skin, in the white Of it, to be drunken from, Like those of crystalline form To rain from the tankard, of the honeyed drink. Plead to me, All you’ve ever wanted, And I’ll lay it out for you, Atop the thorns of your heart, Atop…
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Your eyes, Your smile, After we’ve talked For the while, Shows signs you’ve given in To my seduction. Was it the tone? Was it the way I smoothed you down to size? Which way did you submit? Your tragedies Of a past life, Are histories, written in books inside your mind. Shall we kiss, Beneath…
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“Since it seems that men will feel regret for their action, while it seems that women will feel guilt for their inaction, does this mean that the beautiful woman can only be beautiful, can only ever provide color to the world, when her guilt upon each thing neglected, is the nearest thing her man can…
Modern Romanticism 