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Measure to leisure

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Written: April 19th, 2025

A philosophical poem of how time is treated.

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Fate is a leisure that isn’t measured

It factors in ways that we display

All the time around us passes by

When the wheel of fate turns, what's there to discern?

Fate is a leisure to what my

Time is spared behind our eyes

Fate is a leisure we romanticize

Destiny we can’t distinguish from our daily lives

Purpose is purple for which we ignore for something else we wish to adore

We abhor these ideals of our fate but realize when there’s too late

Leisure’s lost to what we wish

The wheel of fate breaks to our pride

We can’t truly decide in these hands of sand

Fate is a measure that only we can land