Of goings and comings.<\/p>\n
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Sometimes,<\/p>\n
In order to come, one must first go;<\/p>\n
In order to arrive, one must first leave \u2013<\/p>\n
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In order to arrive at a new place,<\/p>\n
A new dimension, a holy land,<\/p>\n
One must first leave the old place,<\/p>\n
The monotonous, mundane take on<\/p>\n
Things.<\/p>\n
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Of course, there are those who<\/p>\n
Have arrived at brilliant conclusions<\/p>\n
Without actually ever leaving the limits<\/p>\n
Of their own narrow minds, their canyon hearts\u2026<\/p>\n
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But if one wishes to arrive at a beginning and<\/p>\n
Not a conclusion, one must surely first go forth<\/p>\n
From the routine that is to the revolution that will be.<\/p>\n
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Some things arrive on silver platters \u2013<\/p>\n
The important things never do:<\/p>\n
If they did, they either aren\u2019t real important\u2026<\/p>\n
Or aren\u2019t real silver.<\/p>\n
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(It\u2019s strange how gold never seems to come on<\/p>\n
A silver platter)<\/p>\n
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Sometimes,<\/p>\n
In order to come to peace with the world<\/p>\n
One must first go to war with the self\u2026<\/p>\n
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If you will go out to war
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Against your enemies<\/i><\/p>\n
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Keep your enemy without very close;<\/p>\n
But keep your enemy within even closer.<\/p>\n
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Fighting with other people is hurtful;<\/p>\n
Fighting with yourself is a must.<\/p>\n
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One must go out to war, must do battle<\/p>\n
With the status quotes that you have begun to<\/p>\n
Pass off as your own, must fight the abnormalities<\/p>\n
That have become the unfortunate norm.<\/p>\n
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And G-d will deliver them
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Into your hands and you
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Will capture its captives<\/i><\/p>\n
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If we were to just go out of our minds,<\/p>\n
Out of our own little petty squared circles,<\/p>\n
The battle would be won.<\/p>\n
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Most times, the battle, the war is lost,<\/p>\n
Because we never even go out to fight.<\/p>\n
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If we were to just put up a fight against everything<\/p>\n
False and artificial how could we, beings true and real, ever<\/p>\n
Lose?<\/p>\n
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G-d guarantees our victory; all He asks is that we<\/p>\n
Go out, get out, and fight, struggle, shed a tear, sweat<\/p>\n
A drop, work a little so that we earn what is ours \u2013<\/p>\n
Otherwise, if we don\u2019t go out to war, if we never<\/p>\n
Challenge what is, how could the peace be complete,<\/p>\n
How could we ever know if what we haven\u2019t done,<\/p>\n
Haven\u2019t earned, haven\u2019t achieved, is real and eternal?<\/p>\n
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If we never go out of our minds how could we ever<\/p>\n
Know if what we are getting into is pure or just a figment<\/p>\n
Of our imagination?<\/p>\n
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Going out to war is not some anarchistic form of violence:<\/p>\n
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It is merely questioning everything, battling every ugly<\/p>\n
Thing in this universe \u2013 not killing it \u2013 merely making<\/p>\n
It beautiful \u2013<\/p>\n
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For what is true peace, true victory? Not everyone,<\/p>\n
Laying down their arms, but everyone raising them<\/p>\n
Up in unison, in harmony, in true, divine peace.<\/p>\n
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If you will go out (of yourself)\u2026<\/p>\n
You will surely come in (to your own).<\/p>\n