living in the New Fade
complicates destiny
perhaps more than
any other period
in history
in times past
it was possible to know
exactly what you
were going to be
almost from the moment
you were born
of course it was with
dawning awareness
that you realized
that your life had
limitations and that
altering your fate
would take a
monumental act of will
in the New Fade we
disguise that notion
as the American Dream
where anyone can do
anything they truly desire
the real trick is that
although this is certainly true
many, many people have
taken great pains to ensure
that it is still difficult
part of the reason is that
there are in fact
many, many people
in the world and many
of them are interested
in achieving the same thing
you are and so it's like
farming the same land
for too long and discovering
that you must rotate and
cooperate in order to yield
optimum results
the compensating method
for balancing ambition
in the New Fade
means that while everyone
can pursue their destiny
sometimes it takes longer
than you might have thought
a miserable suspension
few people are willing to
acknowledge talent
without an equal amount
of savvy and so you wait
and you wait until perhaps
everything works out
it's true that great talent
is seldom encouraged
in any age and is in fact
silently oppressed
too many voices have been
kept silent throughout history
only to be heard by later ears
what makes this such
an attractive impulse?
why do contemporaries
reject their native genius?
in the New Fade perhaps
it's easier to appreciate
this common phenomenon
but it's no easier to fix
we know everything
or so we think
and so we question
everything too
it's the process of working
it all out where suspension
finally gives rise to progress
and we all cross another bridge
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