Recognize the chase
For what it is.
Recognize work
Is either well-paid
Or meaningful.
Rarely both.
Recognize the work
That is entirely unpaid.
Recognize that what
You fail to recognize
About the natural world
Can kill you slowly.
Keep close the personal
Navigating the universal
Keep close the practical
Navigating ambition
Keep close this need
To stretch beyond
An awkward balance
On this rocky soil.
We live in unreality
While reality’s barking and babbles
While reality’s giggling and gravity
While reality’s melancholy and inspiration
While they what?
Setting suns
Light into darkness
A descent upon our days
Before dawn erases
Darkness again.
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Previously Published on Medium
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