So many thoughts have passed this way before,
   but I have not allowed them to invade my door.
   So why do they insist on coming back for more
   when my mind is closed and I am not receiving?

I never meant to sanctify or consecrate
   the tenets that we worship as an ordained fate,
   and rituals we practice with unconcious hate.
   I must digress from a life I'm not believing.

We should be forced to notice, as so much evidence abounds,
   our feeble lives are nothing when spread upon the ground.
   So the larger social conscience should lead us all to frown
   for creation of a "new world" is deceiving.

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