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The Protected

having never really set foot outside the bubble, the knowledge of the inside is of course extreme--- the ability to answer any question dealing with the sensibilities of what is like to always be surrounded by loved ones, to always have a jingling in the pocket, to always know that in the daily routine everyone pretty much looks like you everyone pretty much smells like you everyone pretty much acts like you--- to never really be challenged by anything & in that, never knowing any concept of human struggle, from which others may never know a single moment of rest--- to always accept what is told due to the face that always tells it (as these faces never really change never really change---when one dies, they are simply replaced by an almost identical one)--- to never have discomfort to never fear catastrophe to walk outside the bubble with the knowledge that everything revolves around you & can only touch you when you allow for it when you control all the circumstances (or when one representing you has established beforehand the appropriate nature of its safety)--- to wonder what everyone outside the bubble is complaining about to wonder what a wrinkle or gray hair might be to age like fine wine & to die leaving an unearned legacy.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2011




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