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We rode the train across the country- just your hand in mine.
We drank coffee and fell asleep on shoulders- uncomfortably comfortable.
We watched the sunsets through glass windows huddled up together under blankets.
We read books and quietly fell in love with fictional characters who reminded us of better versions of us.
We smiled a lot and slept so little because for once our reality was better than our dreams.

"Through thick and thin." You said as we passed by the great Rocky Mountains.
"Forever and always." I said as we kissed at the station in New York.
There are words to bring life
Setting a world into motion
Words to cause death
Spoken in anger and violence
Words that are wasted
Like drops in the ocean
Words that are absent
Unspoken and silent
The song swells in a crescendo
Soaring to heights unreached by any soul before
Calling forth from the farthest depths of my heart
Emotions unexplored by centuries of human war
Art is not dead
It's just rearing its head
On sidewalks and forums
As well as a gallery's decorum

Music's not gone
The song still goes on
Online and in strip malls
Just like the concert halls

Legends are still written
Leaving an audience smitten
In novels and orations
And theaters across the nation

Culture's not gone
It's still moving on
And I, for one,
Think its just begun
 Sep 2016 A Cup Of Sunbeams
JDK
To climb is to fall.
In time, the ladder bends.
The hand reaches too far and grabs
a fistful of nothing.
And all of a sudden, we're slipping off the edge.
Lately I've been wondering
If the truth is really worth it
If my curiosity really paid off

Was it better to be innocent
Or to be informed?

But I've realized something:

No matter what I find out
Wether knowing was really worth it in the end
I still try to find out

Even knowing
That my curiosity has revealed
Things I didn't always like
I still find myself
Snooping and digging around
Again and again
Success or failure
Answer or only uncertainty
I keep finding myself trying again

Because my curiosity
Is instinctual
And for better or worse
I can only be
A curious little cat
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