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Outrage, Apathy, Indifference, Numbness.

Collectively, as a people, we are essentially a mob - inept, insensitive, brutal. Individually, we're selfish and apathetic. Suitably, we are governed by a collective with the same qualities, and comprised of similar people granted with the added potency of "power". She's gone. And nothing has changed. The rapes and gang-rapes continue. The government continues to be insensitive and inept. The pol ice continues to be absent when most required. Monsters continue to walk among us. We continue to be outraged. Until we experience outrage fatigue, and move on - as apathetic and selfish as ever. Outrage is easy. Stop pretending like you give a damn. All of this, including this write-up, is social media grandstanding. Lighting a candle, writing, and sloganeering might be glamorous. But they're just images - media fodder. If you, if we - want real change, we'd join politics. We'd join the police. But we haven't, and very few of us will. Dr...

Immersion

I dig up the earth to bury my numerous mistakes. Your doll lies lost in the grass, unnoticed I dig up the earth to bury my numerous mistakes. Your earrings lie lost in the grass, unnoticed. Days pass by in their search....the mind dives deep underwater. Stolen time - my sole earnings. I dig up the earth.... I liberate today - the water from the spring. Wash away the memories from lifetimes past. I liberate today - the water from the spring. Wash away the memories from lifetimes past. Let the evenings remain in confinement, and the skies bereft of kites. On our way back, lies the earth coloured and hued. Ancient roots pull me back As you sing me the song of sunset Ancient roots pull me back As you sing me the song of sunset Immersing me within the amphibious nature of all experience. Paper....Boats......The pages of History. The answer lies here. I dig up the earth to bury my numerous mistakes. Your doll lies lost in the grass, unnoticed. I dig up the earth....