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Why do we only rest in peace?

Why don't we live in peace, too?

Why do we find that which we truly want only at death?

When the living left behind are in a lachrymal period caused by us.

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From our natal escape, repose is deluded from us.

Contravene to the laws of nature, we live.

We horse around, in self-deceit, that our lives are tranquil.

Laughable how we obstinately attempt to do this.

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