a poem
I am still alive
Still moving
Still wanting of life
Though I feel like death waits
Impatient and resolute
But we know my time
It isn’t now
Simply some time in the future
Seconds, minutes, years, decades
Some time
Not now
Yet I act dead
Ignoring life
My crime of being
My truest sin
Not acting for me
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