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Body no be firewood
<p>We are not hewn from mahogany or oak,</p><p>No kiln-dried timber for the world to burn.</p><p>We are the steady bending before the broke,</p><p>The silent lessons we were forced to learn.</p><p><br/></p><p>You speak of grit as if it were a stone,</p><p>Of muscle built to defy the sudden gale,</p><p>But every pillar is built of marrow and bone,</p><p>And every tether is designed to fail.</p><p><br/></p><p>The world is a butcher, a merchant of heat,</p><p>A dog-eat-dog circus under a bleeding sun.</p><p>We march on blisters, dragging tired feet,</p><p>Until the "push" and the "pull" are finally done.</p><p><br/></p><p>For man is not firewood, dry and hollow,</p><p>He is a reservoir that eventually runs dry.</p><p>There is a depth that the shadows cannot follow,</p><p>A point where the "will" stops asking "why?"</p><p><br/></p><p>In the end, the battlefield claims the win,</p><p>The fortress crumbles, the armor starts to rust.</p><p>We realize the solitude we’re living in,</p><p>And return our heavy secrets to the dust.</p><p><br/></p><p>But there is a savage beauty in the snap, </p><p>To know you were soft, and yet you stood.</p><p>To fall within the closing of the trap,</p><p>And prove, at last, that you were never wood.</p>
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