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coming to terms
It would seem at this particular moment
we are coming to terms with who and what we really are.
It is in the same in the same moment exhilarating and frightening.
However, deep down in our hearts, we always suspected
there was more to all this than picking up the dry cleaning
on Saturday morning,
and wondering who left the empty milk
carton in the fridge.
Derek Earl Houghton
go be challenged at all costs.
Derek Earl Houghton
The nightmare is of an onion that gets larger
and larger with every layer you peel away.
The more you dig your nails in to it the larger
it gets swelling to an impossible size.
You do this for a thousand years.
One day you wake up to begin yet another day
of peeling away yet another layer of this gigantic onion
only to realize it was never about the onion,
but rather the tears of sorrow and joy,
that you shed while peeling it,
over so many thousands of years.
Derek Earl Houghton