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Overthrowing Hypocrisy
It is at a very rare point
Where one can see
Simultaneously
What once was
And what will be
If what one is looking at
Is not a legacy
But for me personally
My world will not allow me to be
In a state where I can perceive
A future imagined in a dream
At night, or day, or moments in between
Where there's an eventual present to see
When I have the chance to intervene
Because I have been paralyzed in vain
As time outside of past and present
Has become my biggest bane
Stuck without loss or gain
Locked in a chained brain
Made to feel insane
For feeling such disdain
As I have a future to obtain
And while I've been left in this terrain
With only given thoughts to entertain
I fear my bones have solidified too soon
Frozen by an already lived fortune
Because somehow while looking at the same moon
I missed the breaking down of my cocoon
And seemingly every afternoon
I am shadowed in a cacophony of dreaded questions
Asking about resolutions for revelations
That are already meant to have spun flat of revolutions
That I secretly have spinning still on suspensions
With aged maroon stained creations
Saved for future forgotten occasions
That I put on hold
Because I was told
To not want to grow old
Leaving me paranoid
Of a time I've been taught to avoid
A dreamy distanced skyline destroyed
As clocks became weapons deployed
That have left current moments feeling decoyed
And honestly I'm just really annoyed
That it is not only I
Who feels the pressure to never do what is unexpected
Until we are expected to
Leaving us out like unbaked clay
Unfinished
Made to stay but not decay
Drowned in a haze
Left out to freeze
Longing for the ability to stoically seize
Anticipatory please
To chase the edge of a breeze
Breathing in the air just before an applause
But I have to hope dreams can do more than simply thaw
So I'll lift my iced shaking hands to declaw
And wish to withdraw beliefs I foresaw
As it’s time to find a new law
Anyone can individually redraw
Because our vision was not born tinted
This attribute was ungratefully gifted
As age is a topic too far drifted
Leaving the snowfall of things predicted
Improperly sifted
Coldly depicted
But not destined to be encrypted
As like all things that can be outwitted
Nothing is past being contradicted
If we take times pressure and evict it
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