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Deciduous

Shedding every layer you’ve ever built up.

Some calloused, some fragile, but rooting from the same trunk

An avalanche of turmoil, a wave of delusion.

This isn’t how self-fulfillment is measured nor found.

It’s these spires from which you have crawled

Every cobblestone step from which you have slipped on

It’s these failures that hewn our comprehension

It’s these failures that hewn our understanding

Oh, Bathing in the marrow of conformity

A cesspool from which false-selves are born

Forefathers of distress;

Sorcerers of unyielding anguish

Grant me your burdens

Some form of diversion

Just an ounce of substance

Something of pure essence

Just something fucking real

Among these mountaintops

Above the valleys of uncertainty

The quintessence of self-realization

And when you find it, grasp what’s left

The forking path ahead

is merciless.

So let your stride

wax and wane

Darting between

every obstacle

And its intolerable

consequence

To a life

of willfulness

A path of Dis-

ambiguation

A reason to

keep striving for

One last promise

of persistence