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Mediocrity is my submission

November 16, 2014
By CharTron3001 BRONZE, Owasso, Oklahoma
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Let death find you living.

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It is not the summer that drowns my mind.

It is not the winter that chokes the kind.

Everyday it is storming, at least a little.

I find there is no good or evil, just mediocrity; stuck in the middle.

It is not happy, and it is not pain.

It is the constant storm that drowns the sane.

 

Is it not exciting to think of a peaceful tomorrow?

One with optimism, to return the negative borrowed. 

A life deep in the ground to soothe the brain.

This singular thought is what keeps me tame. 

I have no fear for a lack of tomorrow.

I know my body is a body borrowed.

It is given from the Earth with a promise of return.

These bodies are a gift, because without, our soul would have no lesson to learn. 

© Matt F., Pierz, MN

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