abnegation (2)

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abnegation the faction that blames selfishness for the destruction of the world, and thus practices selflessness

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I'd like to believe
that there is Abnegation
running through these hollow veins
from the way I wear my hair short
to the way I want to change the world

I see homeless people begging
on the corners of the city streets
and my heart wrings itself into bits

but I do not give them anything

an Abnegation would offer a poor man
their coat, their money, their food
anything to become selfless

but I, I am selfish
I think about myself way too much
and gaze at the way I look in the mirror
I do not give, because I know what they say,
"They'll just go use it to smoke, anyways."

I am selfish
I run on my own accord
so perhaps I am not selfless enough
perhaps I do not exude selflessness enough
to become Abnegation

I am selfishI run on my own accordso perhaps I am not selfless enoughperhaps I do not exude selflessness enoughto become Abnegation

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