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Human Suffering by Stan Sanvel Rubin

07/02/2022

At the edge of suffering
is more suffering.

This is what’s meant
by inexhaustible,

as in, love is inexhaustible,
hope is inexhaustible,

but the ways we hurt ourselves
can’t be numbered.
 
We’re like pickup sticks
thrown on a giant threshing floor.
 
Breath can be expended
until there is no more breath
 
as in galaxies
in the universe,

the stars are inexhaustible
until they vanish.

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