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The Same (Free verse) by newdawnfades

Trying to break our own biological code of behavior For I will do today what I have done tomorrow and tomorrow will sink into yesterday. Days and nights will rise and dip, with the rays of light, and dark and night. Past memories will curl up in a mass of identical experiences, and they will all be the same experience with no distinction or difference and our entire life will come and go in a single day, a single memory, lived in different ways but always the same. When our eyes have shut and our souls have left us, that will be the same too, just in a different way.

Geschäftsreise 18-Sep-03/2:23 PM
Interesting. I think (open to discussion) that the middle stanza is flawed in your understanding of memories. Your brain is only set up to record memories of unique incidents. Therefore we do not carry memories of the menial day-to-day. They do not form a mass.

They form a hole in our existence - vast stretches of our life without any record of our having lived it!

I think if you rewrite this poem with this understanding it will even be stronger (and the connection between death and routine that much closer).

Just a thought.




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