A Highbrow Hymn, Oh Love, How Deep, How Broad, How High

Lunable to wonder
In curiosity glimmers
A broken man
A broken soul
Never sought
Never thought 
meant to be
Meant for me

ignorant human
convivial sung
Felted loyalty 
Taught adaptation 
Commonly
Meant to be
Meant for me 

Wishful being 
Existing 
Dashboard clean
1956 
Traveling speed 
Undetermined 
Bored annoyed 

Meant to be
Meant for me
Overwhelming 
Unwatchable 
Death close
Born to die 
Glorified pissant

Conformist
Bend past
Self awareness 
Still there
Look awkwardly 
For dull
Witless actors

Directed carelessly 
Not forgetting 
Funnily trapped 
As rodents 
Unbeatable maze
Freely bound
Vaulted sound

Chicot choice
Sound absurd 
Differentiate 
Diverted easily 
Incompetent 
Flawed 
Institutional

Inexpert soldier 
ing pestiferous
Go die young 
Supposed industriousness
Meant of me
Meant to be 
Match unrivalled

Dying repertoires 
purpose bleak
Parce que je déteste 
la vie et elle le sait


The mood of the wirery rodent unable to remove itself from the wall it climbed into made to listen or fall from scurvy or starvation, the point of view from  a dead soldier who had no choice but to listen and judge because he was also a total dick
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