exhale regret (a physical breath.)

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"Fame or integrity: which is more important?
Money or happiness: which is more valuable?
Success or failure: which is more destructive?"
                                           - tao te ching.


Brocken fragment,
  scatter like incense burning.
between fingertips
  the smoke shapes emptiness.
while illusive
   lessons form and recast.
a problem
   that can't be solved with class
      all of it trails
          off to
             a railing
                smoke
                   that
                     ends
                       in a
                         breath for which I am forever in debt.
                                            exhale regret (a physical breath.)

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