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A Poem

By Atomic HistorianPublished 2 years ago • Updated 2 years ago • 1 min read
9/22/24
Photo by Cloris Ying on Unsplash

Hey

Whatever you think about me

It’s true

Because that is the version that’s real to you

No matter what I say

Will dissuade what you think of me

My actions may change what you’re thinking

But you’ll never see the things that happen when you’re blinking

A blissful existence

Filled with ignorance

Knowing that no matter how close someone gets to me

They will never know what goes on inside

The real me

The me that I keep from society

The me I keep from me

In order to fit in with an ideal

An idea

That won’t exist hundreds of years from now

Because their is no tradition

Other than the superstition that this is how things have always been

And thus

How they should be

Forever more

So on, and so on

Forever attempting to belong

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    Written by Atomic Historian