our beauty is
---raul

our beauty is
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to be awake.
restless as the friday traffic heading towards a weekend,
not to repeat itself
under the same light.
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we're stuck in life and not in birth or death
and the numbness needed to survive can overkill
and become irrational.
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it stretches over us as all the lands we've never been
and barley comprehend.
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to say we've been there is an inability
to comprehend vastness,
to say we've been there is to capture and cage.
to be captured and caged in vastness.
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if this is so then beauty too is an end
before a beginning,
when beauty cares for neither of the two.
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our beauty is birds finding glass instead of the sky.
beauty we understand,
understand with our hearts.
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to care little for the window,
we thank them
as we do any attempt of freedom.
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to fall broken,
to be human.
it is wrong to say
that is the only hope we know.
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it would be to say they were caged to begin with.
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raul