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Hemingway Had It Right

Robert D. Lyons

What people forget
Is that a journey to nowhere
Starts with a single step too.
Closure is just an excuse
To be lazy.
All stories end in death.
All stories end in decay.
All stories end in tragedy.
Sometimes the curtain just closes
Too soon.
Don’t fight it,
Just keep moving
Until your feet give out.
Don’t try to fix the world.
Soak it in,
And shoot from the ashes
Like a phoenix.
What you run from
Only stays with you longer.
If you fight it,
You’ll only make it stronger:
It will feed from your blood.
Losing all hope
Is freedom.
Nobody really wants their lives fixed.
Nobody wants the road cleared.
Nobody wants their problems solved.
Their four act dilemmas.
Their blockbuster distractions.
Their stories resolved.
Their heads cleared.
Their messes cleaned up.
Because what would they have left?
A lifeless corpse
Facing the throbbing void
Of the immense bloodcurdling
Unknown.

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