Within

Within shoes and socks
Within shirts and pants
Within hair and flesh
I
Decay
Within reason and thought
Within truth and dreams
Within freedom and chains
I
Question
What exist
Within eyes
And
Within voice
Within fate
And of course
Within choice
Within song and line
The lines
I
Wait in
To spend
What they won't give me
What I've
Earned
That they
Won't give me
What I've
Learned
They won't give we
Within chance
That we
Learn...

Within book and verse
Within praise and curse
Within heart and hand
I
Feel
Within reason
That I
Die
Each time you
Within me
And thus again
We
See
Only to stake mistake
Upon each of our faces
To aid the decay
That exist
But is feared to recognize...
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