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"Life is supposed to be difficult," he said taking a long swig for his ornate hip flask, "It’s the struggle against the infinite violence of a universe.” I smiled, perhaps he was right or perhaps he was just an asshole making it up as he went along, but the gravity of his remark struck me unexpectedly. The default to life was indeed struggle, for all life not just intelligent life; why would I be exempt. I didn’t care for the man and his insidious gloat of pomposity. Nothing is absolute, nothing certain, which makes the possibilities boundless. The joy of life is making it from one moment to the next through adversity and earning the things the things people say about you when you arrive at your freshly dug grave carried by those you hold dearest.

Friday, 16 September 2016

Concrete

This is what happens to our concrete roses. After the lights are out and the stage furniture is pushed aside ready for the next act.

When the bulldozers are done with the broken petal dreams he dared to show us. When the gun smoke clears and the unashamed fade into the shadows.

We lament.

Because our hearts are broken but deep down we know this place is of steel and bone and sharp edges, a flower could have never survived not even one that pushed its way through the cracks in the street.

This is what happens when the young perish at the hands of heartless men, our memories remain but the dream dies forever.         

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