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Have you ever
crawled within
the cavernous nook
of your depleted soul,


built a fort
and stayed until
another comet
kissed the earth for
another quarter of
a millennia?


No?


I have.



I have watched
the city dwellers
build their iron
fortresses and
faked serenity
in chewable pebbles.


I have seen the night
wither into
a smog paradise
and oceans turned
into cesspool of
human endeavours.


I have tasted
the ever-changing
tang of blood,
amalgamated with

Earth's sadistic
evolution.


Salt, metal, fear:

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