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The Artist: Future ramblings of an outsider
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Victoria Kuykendall

Society told you to be:
a question quite frequently answered,
and asked with remorse.
My way was just failed attempts.

I remember sad dreary eyes.
Gazing silvery looking glass skies,
with artist that colored outside the lines.
The sand. The sky was purple, and flowers.

Who sought after answers the same,
can remember,
before the world
told you to blame.

Who you were
before the world expected less, free spirit,
now confined to a cage.
Suit and cubical a cruel master with chain labeled, wage.

Free to be no one.
Free to nothing or,
Something.
Not for greatness.

Can you remember
before the world
could see right through you?
Her answer so piercing.

Soul like the waves chipping away life by sea uncontrolled,
with a faint soft glow.
Couldn’t help but wonder,
how bright light was before the cynic took control.

Then some afraid,
obeyed.
Told exactly who listen to false words
from anything that appears in your head.

That you have no control of your future,
when your minds already dead.

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