My body careens with the chemical coffee rage
Forced absolution, smarting eyes, and flushed skin
Adrenaline coursing through veins - the water of life
A primal rejection of discordant absurdity
I return to the hearth; embracing immolation
The phoenix flame of perpetual beginning
Replaying the scene as such:
"Now my fair cousin,
if we are marked to die
we are enough to do our country loss
and if to live, the fewer men
the greater share of honor"
The breadth of history separates
me from idol formations - heroes
more deserving of tribute than any
dwarf that stumbles through the present day
The breadth of history separates
me from golden rays and ideal
conditions: jubilant trivial tidings
A haughty love of simply being
The breadth of history separates
me from that which I yearn for
The foolish belief that there
is something greater than this
The breadth of history separates
me from utopia; without the breadth,
I couldn't blind myself with hope
Damn distance - the paradoxical imperative
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