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The Salty Sea


The world is not a line,                                                                                                                                
of words sweet 'n bright;
It is but a face of woe;
Of cruel slander and twisted lies. 
 
On every step are blackened leaves,
And 'tis to be a blight;
That has halted every river in every nation,
From flowing to its destined might.
 
This world has counties two,
One Fire - the other Ice;
And thee art to enjoy twain,
from letters time to time.
 
This path has choices two,
One darkness - the other light;
As for the steep and hike,
Art equal unlike the final sight.
 
This coin has faces two, 
One head - the other tail;
It has painted tail with head,
Distant yet very akin.
 
Lost is the meaning of,
life, respect, frame , kind;
Pain, love, help and men,
long ages-decades-centuries w'hence.
 
Had there not been a mask, 
On each smile and all frown;
It shall be clear and crystal, 
The two streams; The two seas.
 
Two seas of humans live,
two streams of karma white;
Yet not a drop of humanity,
inside th'infinite whirl of hate.
 
Generational be this eutopia if passes-
The world has but faces two;
two seas, two streams, two paths,
Too cloudy to be clear, too clear to be far.
 
Two remain the voices,
screaming in every head;
Envy, wrath, greed, lust, fear,
Understood only by the dead.
 
Two remain the choices, 
To live by form and shape;
To understand the open maze,
To render the strangled ways.
 
Loud and clear be I-
 
The world has but faces two,
And gluttony, love, greed, judge;
jealousy, lust, and physical life,
In a dark and pitless drop lie.
 
O' the Sea salty, 
of lie and frame;
That's all that remain today,
All that remains today.
 
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PersonalThemeAbstract

Philosophical dualism (light/dark, fire/ice) with personal despair undertones.

SparseMeasureDense

Dense philosophical assertions stacked rapidly; multiple ideas per 10 lines.

DarkSentimentBright

Overwhelmingly negative: despair, cruelty, hate, corruption dominate throughout.

StillEnergyExplosive

Intense, declarative voice with passionate repetition and exclamations.

MicroLengthEpic

Approximately 50+ lines; extended meditation on duality and nihilism.

PlainFigurativeOrnamented

Rich metaphors (coin, seas, masks, maze); extended symbolic duality.

LyricVoiceDramatic

Primarily lyric-prophetic voice with shifts toward dramatic proclamation.

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