balanced between futile hope

and definitive damage


how could one not go psycho

between aspiration to transcend


and the inevitability of failure

as all one is holds one back from


all one may become?

all one's intent is as nothing


all one's love and compassion

a joke to the indifferent universe


oh let all trying be rested and abandoned

let act in the instant call the shot


let imagination merge with the reality

and let the life stand as it is








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