How do you prevent an anchor from becoming a ball-and-chain?
How do you keep a safety line from shackling you?
Is the second really just the first without pain?
What good are your links to the past if they form a chain of despair in lieu,
a wrought iron monument to those times passed
and which you knew could never last?
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But how do you lose your past without losing yourself?
All I know is that you need roots to grow.
So how is a rootless transplant good for your health
When all you want is a fresh breeze to blow?
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So perhaps it’s best to fashion those links into a coat of mail.
Tell me, do you know a blacksmith who cannot fail?
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“And before you drift off, don’t forget, which is to say, remember, because remembering is so much more a psychotic activity than forgetting.” - Timothy “Speed” Levitch