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Roots And Threads

//What, How, Why, Who, and Where//
What is up and down, but life 
going through moods that matter 
nothing once they are through? 
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How might I abound, but strife 
release its horrid clatter 
o'er my every move? 
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Why is my ev'ry sound, but rife 
with pointless, mundane chatter 
designed for naught anew? 
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Who am I to amount, but fife 
through this unwanted platter 
painted only to behoove? 
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Where's my final mound? But life 
remains in a ruined shatter 
with my torn roots askew?
//More Than Myself//
I am a thread in a quilt, 
Clinging to the unraveled fibers around me. 
They say, "Pull free, be your own thread!" 
🌳🌼🌳 
Though I break, I will not split 
For though faded, those shredding threads are what ground me; 
And without seams, I'd be dead. 
🍃🥀🍃 
I have roots, spread far and wide 
Under soil malnourished and sparse of flowers. 
And yet, there's no place to transplant me. 
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The world screams, "You must divide Yourself from them." 
Don't they know solitude devours 
Those that haven't community? 
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What is a flower without 
A field in which to bloom, or a vase to delight? 
The unicorn without its herd? 
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"I'm more than me," I cast out. 
What sort of fool would cut the strings to let the kite 
Fly free? Is that not absurd? 
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Yes, I'm tied to shattered souls. 
But they are pieces of me, not a spider's web. 
I wasn't born to self-venerate. 
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Of myself, I'm not proved whole. 
Broken are they who forfeit roots and threads for self. 
How could I e'er separate? 
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