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suppose I am alive

suppose I am alive and
suppose it's all an accident and there's no purpose
my mind skits around it
and revels in it while ignoring the question

it's free, no responsibility just a choice whether to enjoy and live, to exist, to subsist,
if I'm lucky enough to have been given that choice

which I am

so what to do with this new found freedom

i don't have to have something written on my tomb stone
or answer a questionnaire on what I have accomplished in my life before I peg it

the answer is nothing, something, it doesn't matter, life is still worthwhile, in the sense I exist and then I won't. and that's ok. 

it's all an accident, or something, and here I am and here I won't be.
so I take no more responsibility that I am alive.  it wasn't my choice.  but I am alive and I will live.

Heidi Allen October 2009

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Walking up a Mountain

walking up a mountain
not stopping (in case the top disappears)
concentrating concentrating concentrating
dontstop dontstop dontstop

and then your big warm hand is on my shoulder
with voice that says
hi, here with you, how is it going

and now i feel like the crumble on the apple
all in pieces

but warm

 

Heidi Allen
June 2009

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