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Ruined Chance
I couldn’t help myself.
Some part of me,
I couldn’t deny.
Wanted to cause chaos.
It was inevitable; truly.
I didn't have to think
before I ruined it,
I didn't even hesitate.
A morally gray,
Imperfect person.
I can't return to how it was.
after this. I know that.
Just this one; fragile chance.
But as soon as I became
Impatient,
Tired,
When I tore of the beauty
In all,
I greeted my victim.
Cheap to its core.
All too easy to destroy
and as my hands burnt,
Touching all of its
Ironic Glory
I shook it in my hands with all of my might
Desperately looking to see my effect,
As if I was special enough.
I watched it swirl in ruin,
Pucker in despair,
And there I stood...
Content in my destruction...
Until I was not.
So I reshook-
My lava lamp.

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I wanted to write a deeply internal piece about the moral battle of shaking a simple lava lamp.