Manifesto

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Poetry abounds from drawers and shelves

Unfiled, spewing forth their wisdom and misery

Destined for a market that defies gravity

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Crawling from the wreckage of a thousand broken odes

The grey-stubbled man steps gently on piles of rubble

So meticulously destroyed during the revolution

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Creating a new spirit within the confines

Of a gradually aging corporeal stance

He stands taller now in every measure

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Looking across the fields long left fallow

During the searching and destroying of years

Now so fertile, willing to yield whichever fruits are sown

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The seeds take root, sentence by sentence

Each heart aligns itself with a fresh universe

From which to perceive the evolution

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Of thought that has come thus far, proceeding

To lead us gently by the warmth of his hand

Pursing the vision that shines within