Joan Baez’s grey mare stumbled
Mercifully they put her down
Teapot smashed against the counter
Shards assigned to garbage mounds
Nietzsche famously once stated
What doesn’t kill you makes you strong
This is trite and shallow thinking
Seeing only two extremes is wrong
The saying often is repeated
By the strong and not the weak
From the dead words can’t be spoken
Silent vigil’s all they keep
No! There is an in-between
Ghastly world and miserable
Those who neither die nor strengthen
Die and yet are living still.
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