it’s the idea not the buildings as to why we call someplace home
on a flat surface everything sits calmly and nothing happens
we are taught to trust certain things; and not notice a screw is missing
any decision will carry consequences that we must live with
certain barriers are designed, not to contain a threat, rather us
most of our choices are neither on nor off, but somewhere in between
to approach something from a different angle is to see it new
under one layer is another; and again repeating through time
we ignore the cracks in the out-of-mind places ‘til something grows there
the daily challenge is to figure out which things are worth the struggle
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