No Right Selection

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11432
United States
40° 42' 55.6272" N, 73° 47' 30.876" W

What can’t I live without?

T’is truly a question to think about

Is it an object or being?

Or an idea worth believing?

 

Will my selection withstand the pressure of time?

 

Suppose life hands me a lime

And I appear on a mystical island of time

With no life or any other goal

Than to rest your soul

 

Will my selection withstand the pressure of time?

 

The insanity slowly consuming

The selection growing boring

Life seems to be ending

Mind thinking

Of maybe another chance at choosing

And yet the loop of time is repeating

Like a symphony of the heart beating

And no right answer is appearing

 

Will any selection withstand the pressure of time!

 

What can’t I live without?

Something in this world no doubt

But what is this magical answer

The verdict acting as a dancer

Escaping my every grasp

As I come closer and closer

And yet farther and farther

And thus the reader shall never find out

What the writer doesn’t know about

 

But wait though

After my poetic flow

An epiphany just hit me

Like the powerful aroma of the sea

 

That which I can’t live without

Is but conditional to time about

Thus currently what I can’t live without

Is money for college education

So I may derive a formulation

To help people of this Earth live Healthier,

Stronger, Better, and Livelier

So that they may have time to

Ask

Discuss

Assess

What is it that they can’t live without?

 

 

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