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Standing Still

May 4, 2019
By Hrvatska123 BRONZE, Arlington, Massachusetts
Hrvatska123 BRONZE, Arlington, Massachusetts
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I stood with all the world before me,
as a I pondered evening’s light,
The ceramic windmill gleaming,
Its tulips tilted slight.


I stood with all the world before me,
As the moon had still shown bright,
Taking from an inked expanse,
To broaden narrow sight.


I stood with all the world before me, 
As I breathed the air’s delight,
The dampened clouds receding, 
Their whispers granting might.


I stood with all the world before me,
As I gazed into the sky,
I wasted all those moments,
To think of when to cry.


I stood with all the world before me,
As I knew I could have chose,
But I watched the world go by me,
Like the raindrop and her rose.


The author's comments:

This piece is mainly about enjoying life’s luxuries and nature’s beauty but forgetting about one’s own instrumentality in broadening and deepening those luxuries and beauties. The writing is short and simple—sometimes I feel as though we can get to the bottom of our own culpability in not raising our voices when they were necessary by stripping away the adjectives to look at the skeleton of the issue: the facts. In my case, the facts plainly show a lack of ability to act justly on my behalf and on that of others...it is a call to action more than anything, to myself and to all those who are currently “standing still” on an issue they care about.


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