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Some Truth About ‘haves’ & ‘have nots’
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Some Truth About ‘haves’ & ‘have nots’

Free Verse Poem By Douglas Colston

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Jul 11, 2023
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What a peculiar thing it is to be human –
all we know is what we perceive …
and all of that is rooted in the past.
 
Stars millions of light years away
or registering our own thoughts
are little different in that regard.
 
Even in the ever-dying and re-emerging ‘present,’
our very conscious awareness
is a solipsistic reconstruction of former events.

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