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Zero-Sum Enigma


Is honor sum total,

or dolled out by degree

 

Can it live through confusion,

and your failings to be

 

Are those moments of weakness,

made up when you strive

 

To become more than just living,

eternal—alive

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2019)

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