hindsight



May this be the change I seek? No. I have long since past my peak. Survival of the fittest so we burry the weak. Wickedly wasted with wonton disregard I feel this life is over and play my last card. Exposing myself to the cleansing light so pure, now the last of my fetid falacies I must endure. I trudge through turmoil with tenacity at the reigns nearing the end I forget my own name.
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Submitted on March 12, 2012

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