Space, Or The End And The Beginning of It All

Rishi Chen

Space humbles the proudest of us all

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It's mere existence fates the wit-touched saints to fall

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It erases the quietest whistle and overpowers the loudest roar

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And forgets the oldest of ancient years-in-the-coming lore

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It births existence yet always envelops its ill-fated creations

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In the hit-and-run pace of the jaw-dropping nations

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It’s the feeling between people sitting adjacent to each other

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Like the essence of the resounding population’s wuther

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It's the feeling of life approaching much too quickly as the sandy-shored wind hurdles into your hair

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As the racket doesn't stop to acknowledge your care

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It's the noise when pebbles skip across the floodplain that incites uprisings

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The view of the cascades after the scheme they’ve been devising

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When cliffs falter in their ever-effervescent approach toward oceans of endlessness

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When the aroma wafts through your homely, familiar mess

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It’s somehow always there in the livelihoods of the generation, 

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Yet its existence has never left the melancholy station

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It is surprisingly wistful yet can find satisfaction in its greatly malicious deeds

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Though its briefly-overthought answers disregard all our needs

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It closes in on the ones around it, squeezing, suffocating, sustaining

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And it's behind the commonwealth, constantly training

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It's the experience you can find in the alleyways and corridors that you can only refer to as “wild”

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It's the morning when all you can see are arms over the faces that once smiled

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It's the night when luminescence envelops all you know 

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The ruthless, understanding, all-encompassing glow

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That holds your hand and ties your diamond lace

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In the wondering, depressive space

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