Why does the real stand as mystery before the greatest minds among us And seem so obvious to be without comment among the rest?

See no evil. Hear no evil. But throw plenty of shade.

Oh, you, oh my! Don’t you wish to know your life’s purpose revealed? Do you not know in your heart There’s a key that unlocks it?

To fail spectacularly Is to invite the catalog of personal failures To mirror what’s broken in you In little aching steps

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