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Live or Wait?

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I don't know where it comes from
This pain I carry in my chest
It’s a weight I don't understand
But I keep going, as if the burden were my truth
There’s something inside me
A desire that gets lost in the shadows
But I insist, I insist
Because, maybe, there’s no other way to be
I looked into the abyss
And the abyss didn’t look back at me
Only the silence echoing within
And I, trying to breathe
It’s a fight without a name
Without reason, without end
But who are we, if not what we can endure?
And if I fall
Let me fall like dry leaves in autumn
Because I no longer know if I am living or just waiting
The only thing I know is that I need to keep going
I wonder if one day
The pain will stop being my companion
Or if it will be the only truth
I’ll know until the end
But I keep going, not knowing where to
With strength that’s made of nothing
The strength to resist, to continue
Even when the self no longer knows what it is

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◄ Resistance

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