Living Things

-Living Things-
by
Keaton Foster

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Who am I
Who are you
What are we
Living things
Viable skins
Drapped over toxic sins
Always facing death
Embracing each breath
Knowing nothing
Questioning everything
Not standing for something
While everything else falters
There will be no second chance
No new beginnings
Only inescapable endings
God above gave us something
He meant for us to keep it
But along the way we’ve lost it
Unable to see
Blind to his vision we’ve become
No longer do we truly believe
What was once our strength
Has become our weakness
Living things
Monuments to failures happening
The present is all that matters
A future, what an illusion
It’s impossible make things right
When what is right
Has become nothing of interest
A slide of our own hand
Has left every one of us fooled
And fools are not easily separated
From their hemorrhaging ideals
Regardless of the reality that such
Blatant loses will come to mean
The only way we can ever come back
The only way we can ever be more
Is to let go of our lives
To lose every form of control
To take a blind leap into faith
Down below, into forever’s hole
Is everything that we don’t know
And everything that we have let go
There within the true darkness is light
There with nothing is salvation
Only within the fall can we rise
Only within such uncertainty
Can we claim absolute conviction
Such a willingness to risk it all
Is what we must embrace
Who am I
Who are you
What are we
Living things
Viable skins
Drapped over toxic sins
Always facing death
Embracing each breath
Knowing nothing
Questioning everything
Currently
Not standing for something
When something to believe in
Is what we need most of all…




Living Things
Written by Keaton Foster Copyright © 2013