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© Maximilian Ruiz Sirkia 2024
A life in sets of threes
A life in nine melodies
A story in 12 lines
The gaze of the future
Unblurs what froze in time
But there’s no sight besides the meaning
And no meaning besides the sight
What rests in lines inside the feelings
Becomes new feeling inside the lines
A young man and love
A young man and pain
An old man and knowledge
That he once was just the same
Artistic intention
As a subconscious escape
He held the reins of invention
Through the scars of mistakes
Unmistakably so
For many were beyond control
He thought to seek what is thoughtless
Beneath the depth of his soul