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Rated: E · Poetry · Drama · #2281035
Those around us grow, as we few, remain separated

Separated
by Keaton Foster

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Separated
There
By itself
Oneself
In a field
Of many
Down low
In the shadows
In the shade
So cold
Beneath
All around
Life grows
Rises above
But it is not alive
And it is not dead
It is in between
In a world of beauty
And a life of ugly
It has existed
Such persistence
What is it
How could it be
Omnipresent
Futile this being
Fighting a world
Blind to that which
It dares not see
No one
Nothing
Offers aid
Caring
A fool’s charade
Fighting battles
Waging wars
In a wilderness
Of such absolutes
Winning, impossible
Surviving, the same
It could scream
But silent it must be
Nothing cares most
When there are no rules
To define that which is
Could ever be something
Of what do we speak
These words
Such riddles
Inhospitable
Towards understanding
And all meaning
A game thus played
An answer swayed
The truth delayed
Reality is the face
Of the stranger
Standing out of reach
Asking for change
Seeking the same
When there is
Nor will there be
There
By itself
It stands
An omen
And an homage
All within itself
Everything
And everywhere else
Others do grow
Standing true
Facing what must be
As they turn a blind eye
To that of which I speak
All around
The real
Nothing
And no one else
All that there is
Or ever could be
Is as close
And as far away
As that which
Neither lives
Nor dies
Isolation
Is as close
As it need be
Separated…


Written by Keaton Foster Copyright © 2008-2022

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