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Crossroad

Tainted fate was broadcasted this afternoon, and the life of which I had called mine was pasted into the dreary news. Quoted as a mundane, overused headline. But I saw it for what it is within; naked and sunken where bones meet skin, a sullen little echo of mine. Steering down memory lane, grazing fingertips over the wind of essence. Liberation courses through my veins. But I beheld a sudden strain upon my adolescence. Rebirthed into something strange with an unfamiliar name and a staggering age, reality brought me back to the harsh presence. Then upon cruising, I met a crossroad; a junction forking out into two pavements. I stared at the uncertain threshold and defined the pair as Sorrow and Resentment. I sat mellowly in the inbetween, unsure of which path to intervene, so I carved a new road and named it Acceptance.

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Date: 4/5/2024 1:17:00 PM
Ah, the struggle we have to know ourselves. It took decades for me. I enjoyed this poem very much.
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