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On the Dark Side of the Moon

January 30, 2014
By Meghan13133 SILVER, Columbus, Montana
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Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. -The Lorax

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For I have seen both sides
of the moon my dear
THe light of night and the dark
of nightmares
I have known the vast ocean
of incomplete wholeness
and the minuscule raindrop of hope
refusing to fade
The ocean and the raindrop
who will win?
Don't speak the ocean
for it is full of an angry
substance that tricks you
It will make you feel at home in discomfort, and give you a chain hard to break
Don't speak the ocean, for it has been tarnished by man
Confront instead the raindrop
Small it may be but it is infinite all the same
The ocean or the raindrop?
who will prevail?
Don't speak of the ocean
do not even think it
For there is no lifeguard
on the dark side of the moon

© Harrison L., Ruston, LA

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