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The Toll

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By NJ ReedPublished 3 years ago • 1 min read
Top Story - August 2023
The Toll
Photo by Wojtek Witkowski on Unsplash

It’s not quite thoughts keeping me up at night. I wish it were thoughts. Coherent, brilliant, captivating, beautiful thoughts. Alas it’s not that. No. It’s emotions. Wordless, yet stretching infinitely and smashing the character count to oblivion.

Heavy. So. Very Heavy.

Yet floating like the particles of the cosmos containing the universe in each and every atom. Simple, yet boundlessly impossible to fully comprehend. If only it were thoughts that kept me up. Thoughts can be translated to words, which can be translated to art. This? Well, it’s hard to put pen to paper.

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    Written by NJ Reed