Sinking deep in the shallow waters of misery<\/p>\n
Fighting to come up with a boulder sitting comfortably atop me<\/p>\n
Makes any form of movement aimless, what then is the point in swimming?<\/p>\n
I’m swimming in the deep end with the sharks, it’s like they’ve come fishing.<\/p>\n
Tilapia for dinner but I’m missing the right fingers<\/p>\n
Burnt to a crisp touching matters meant to be forgotten.<\/p>\n
I Stopped spending my days dwelling on what coulda been, shoulda been.<\/p>\n
Thinking more on the possibilities coming with tomorrows gleam<\/p>\n
I’ve finally accepted that Tomorrow is a love child of yesterday and today<\/p>\n
It’s how I now understood that pretty soon tomorrow will become aged and grey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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