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Surreal watercolor depicting a huge human-shaped flower with fruit and human figures wandering around it

The invention

Published on 26/05/2024 by Maciej Modzelewski1 Comment

We didn’t invent death,
but we managed to industrialise it;
neither did we invent life,
and yet we pursue an obsession with immortality,
slowly losing the ability to distinguish silence
from the absence of sound.

To think, it all started with sin—our only invention.

Categories English poetry, poetry•Tags absence of sound, death, immortality, invention, life, obsession, poem, silence, sin
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