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Go To Sleep Exhausted

The clock is always ticking, the hair just gets more gray, we think we’ll live forever, we always act that way. But how many before us fell into this same trap? How many names forgotten when we try to look back? Is life just a wait for death, or a new path we must tread? Go to sleep exhausted, you can rest when you are dead. What is it you want to say? What is it to dream to do? Build a home, write a book, have a wife and children two. Explore hidden places to see the wonders there, Probe science’s secrets to know what most wouldn't dare. Do something so the future will know the words you’ve said, go to sleep exhausted, you can rest when you are dead. The universe will not care, it’s a dead and soulless thing, the duty to remember falls upon just the living. Will they see you as a cog moving in some vast machine? Or will they see a figure who made manifest his dreams? Let all the people to come know you wouldn’t yield to dread, go to sleep exhausted, we can rest when we are dead.

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Date: 8/19/2020 9:41:00 PM
You summed up this sage message with superb eloquence. Neat poetic implore. I really respect your ability to do that. Pleased to be your faithful Australian stalker...
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Sigrid Ermine
Date: 8/20/2020 8:08:00 PM
You're my secret American pleasure, like to read you and feel you through your work.
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David Welch
Date: 8/20/2020 4:36:00 AM
Stalking form Australia...hmm, I get the feeling that would require satellites. If that's the case, you should see me waving at the sky.

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