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once in a lifetime
How many ‘once in a lifetime’ events can you miss before you start wondering if you’re actually living?
once in a lifetime to see and hear and feel and breathe
but not for me, I guess
stories and pictures and photos and memories aren’t mine
I’m cut out of my own life because I didn’t take the picture
a collage of memories cut and pasted together but where I should be is a black, empty, vaguely human shaped void
does it really matter, as much as I make it matter?
because it shouldn’t affect me, the color of the sky that night
i dont care.
but the part of me that knows, even with the things I’ve said and done and will do, that even though I don’t care, I do
i want to be human, I want to feel as though I’ve lived a lifetime
but then it makes me wonder about the lifetimes cut short, how can it be once in a lifetime if some lifetimes aren’t given a chance?
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