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They all left, left me watching
from these caged windows, left to watch
their shadowy figures, I was watching
disappearing into the far horizon.
I wanted to tag along, but my cage is stubborn.
Like common sense, it convinced me to
to keep me safe, I had to stay; I had to watch,
to watch them leave and learn my lesson.
The lesson is that they were wrong
and I was right; by lingering here, I never left.
Towards their demise, they were walking
towards their end, they turned away
to say goodbye to a friend who walks
in their own footsteps, very near.
So here I am, at my window cage
waving goodbye to the shadowy spheres
of what once was – my friends who were saying
"we will never die; we're living free."
February 28, 2018
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