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Whatever Happened to Forever?Whatever
Happened to Forever?  Forever
A word moaned all to often.  
Careless sacrilege,
Cheapened
By those who don't understand.  

How long
Forever? Two months. Less.
Meaning transitory,
Forever now
Transitory.  

Instead say 'I cannot see greener grass at this point in time' or
'Insufficient data to compute new scenarios'.  
Too many Tin men
With rusty hearts, not enough
Scared lions.  

Risk
A factor we avoid, but long for.  
People
Do not ignore meaning, but
Subjective thoughts offer no comfort to a cog in the machine.  

System error, fatal crash, er
The InitiationOne quiet afternoon a mystic closed his eyes; he meditated on the veil and wished it would be lifted.  On setting his mind to this task he thought, "Will I die? Is that the sacrifice I need to make?". To this thought the void answered "Yes, you must die".  The mystic recoiled at the thought of oblivion and dismissed it as a construct of his own mind, and that of his ego attempting to impose order onto something unknown.

"What coin can you pay me with if all you have is illusionary?" asked the void, to which the mystic thought "Everything I have is an illusion and has no value in the light of the lifted veil". Deprived of the privacy afforded
Homogenised identityA curd festers on the top of a glass
Floating above the homogenised
Sameness

Defeated individualism
Relative existence
Relative and pointing
At the curd

Relative to the curd
Homogenised identity
Fighting to sink
The Illuminated Sol EmpireIn 2259 the Sol Empire collapsed into its constituent parts, when expansion was forced inwards.  After sowing its seeds in local space, the hunger to reap elsewhere grew as the death pangs of conflict consumed what was once a prosperous enterprise.  This is known and always has been.

In the drive to remedy the energy problem, the tap of holographic resonance was opened. The point energy of the object at the beginning of time continues to speak to the needs of relative "constituents" within its domain.

Everything is in the same place.  There is no relativity in the resonance.  Infinitely-finite is the
Misunderstanding AmbiguityColaba.  Mumbai.  India.  

Tom & Tom step off of the pavement into the chaos of an Indian road.  The smell of fried pakoda and diesel over-whelmed them to the point it no longer existed, denying contrast as they walked at equal pace across the street.   An empty bottle thoughtlessly thrown was retrieved by a street child, who contemplated it thoughtfully.  As Tom & Tom walked further away into doomed potential, a put-put narrowly missed their centre, the driver then having the gall to ask if they would like a ride, "Baba please.  Why like this?".

Across Madam Cama Ro
We Will All Know PovertyHearts fooled, fouled, full
Arteries throb, clogged with shadows

With truth, no room for the other
Who is demanding
Who is begging
The self, cut in two

The self can see
No more truth
Clogged with shadows
Mirror shards

The good life
All needing now
Gorging on each other
Becoming the other

Poverty, the bifurcation of self
A well heart wealth
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He patrolled around and around, up and down, an endless mechanical nature slowly moving in solidarity with his limbo bound comrades, frozen-d

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Beauty in the contrary

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There is beauty in the contrary.

The off beats of appreciation are not wanton

To those found wanting.

In the jazz of life,
  

They offer an escape from the machinations of our conducting oppressors.

A personal oppressor we all know well.
  

A violin that shrieks high and

Cuts at the beauty of melody,

Nothing but an escape from the prescient

Vision of pre-destiny. There is a remedy.

There is always a remedy. An escape

From the inevitable end we are

Offered

In the madness of the ecstatic heart heavy dance.


Release your burdens and see

What the enlightenment brings.

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Beauty in the contraryby ~FalloutPanda

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Mood: Love ~InTheStarryNightSky Aug 31, 2011
This is lovely. The first line is absolutely perfect, the imagery is just beautiful. This is lovely.
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Thank you :)
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