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March 2024
 
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Earth Cavern

by Robin B. Lipinski


Sleeping creature, you dream in a make-believe world.
Walking in a daze you spend your 'days' in pursuit of dreams you forgot
Prone and sweating, for your labor brings you, yes you - answers?

Sex seems real, as real as the stars, planets, even what you call, the moon
Like a flaming comet, the emotion is over, returning to the unseen, the coldness of satisfaction
Pain/Joy, Yin/Yang, Good/Evil, and time.

So, what are you?
Walking in your daze,
Saying, "I'm alive…"?

Are you?
By the hand of the Maker, pulling the strings
To me, you're nothing but what I make of you, much like a bat living in a cave.

The end of delusion, now to enter my world…


© 2015 Robin B. Lipinski

Robin B. Lipinski claims to be addicted to writing. It helps that his good dreams are other people's nightmares. There is not much to know about him other than he shares this planet with you and others.

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