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What do you represent?

I represent the entirety of my peers.

I represent my profession, my passions, humanity, the man on the street.

I represent the homeless, the loveless, those with respect and those I respect.

I represent you, I represent me, I represent what "they say".

I represent facts, I represent theories, I represent questions, ideals and ideas.

I represent dreams, I represent fears,

I represent every truth and every lie I utter.

I am on display for the whole world to see and I represent every inch of the world I live in.

This is my home and yours, I represent you, representing me, representing them and representing us.

But...

I rep-resent those who look down upon us, those who don't represent us.

I rep-resent those who look to me to represent them, without the willingness to represent themselves.

I rep-resent the repetition of past mistakes, the reminders, that halt progress, there's no need for those messages to be re-sent.

I repeat myself.

I repeat myself as I represent the past, as I represent the future and as I repent, am re-spent and restart my intent to feel bent on representing a world which I want to live in.

I represent the world I want you to live in.


I take caution every day to represent the present, as though it were the future I have come to admire.

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◄ Rational Identity

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