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Understanding is Impossible

September 5, 2012
By SharplyDull SILVER, Glenallen, Missouri
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I fight for understanding
No one can seem to know
When I’ve thought I’ve grasped it
I have nothing there to show
I feel so unimportant
I wish to grow my wings
So that I may fly away
And see the scape of things
Our lives are so small
Compared to cosmic wonders
Can’t achieve understanding
Because we don’t know our blunders

Understanding is impossible.

© Dena G., Pittsburgh, PA

The author's comments:
I wrote this my Sophomore year and I was really down in the dumps. I didn't think I had any friends and I could never understand why. So I wrote this to vent my frustrations on, on how I had decided, that understanding was impossible.
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