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Edge of the World

April 17, 2015
By fransantosrdz BRONZE, Monterrey, Other
fransantosrdz BRONZE, Monterrey, Other
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“When adults say, “Teenagers think they are invincible” with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don’t know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.”


I long to find the line,
that marks the edge of the world,
it’s hidden in a nook,
where no one dares to go,
past the Eiffel Tower,
beyond the London Eye,
are the secrets that I,
long to make secrets no more,

but here’s the thing, dear reader,
what I long isn’t the line,
it’s the journey that will take me away,
to a different life,
a life beyond the city lights,
where society is and forever will be irrelevant,
a life of learning and discovering,
a life of ceaselessly moving,

because life stops for no one,
and humans are a part of life,
and so I am life,
and so I won’t stop,
moving
discovering
until I find,
hidden in a nook,
past the Eiffel Tower,
beyond the London Eye,
the edge of the world,
where I will gladly die.


The author's comments:

This whole poem is a metaphor for traveling. 


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