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Through the looking glass

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Calmaffine

Published: Nov 6, 2012

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Is this all real?
What is this sensation we feel?
Are we just reliving the life we once lived?
Did we die already and just get revived?

Who once decided what's left and right?
Who sees everything in black or white?
Is this whole world just a dream?
Is this all part of some scheme?

The answers to the questions were not written in ink
It always changes no matter how much you think
Because you're neither right nor wrong
People have been searching for answers for so long

Laws and rules,
Are just some of our tools
Tools to make this world seem more vast
If they are not believed in then they are just the past

Do we have some weird ideal?
Are we nothing yet real?
An answer is that ''we are'' therefore we exist
But that doesn't always mean we can coexist

Searching for answers can lead us to depression
But when we find the answer, do we remember what is the question?

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Something I wrote during the test week last week (consider that a short hiatus)
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Edit: I fixed the two typo's that you guys pointed out

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