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Vision

Vision:

Written December 2, 2020

Could it be
That all I see around me
Is only a delusion?

And all I feel inside me
Or view in lovely Earth
Or hear in earnest melody
Is in fact reality?

Are these pins which hold my frailty
The scaffold or the cruelty? 
Do these thoughts that bind
My mind and tear my hopes
Image truth or falsity?

Are these dreams I know
That reach transcendent height
And shatter me with light
The vision or the being?

How is it that the firmest things,
That charm my soul and
Wake my heart and
Make me whole 
Are those that are most fleeting?

Is it really so
That softest snow
And pungent cold
And full moon's glow
Mean less

Than leaves of grass
And splattered ink,
Pencil stubs,
And midnight oil?

What can define
A person like me,
Form a new stone
From ash and time,
Break apart reality
And find
That it could be?

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