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coffeesp00ns  ·  2374 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Something beautiful died tonight

   Something beautiful died last night. 

   It was inside a man,

a man who had changed himself

to change his family

to change his city

to change his country

to change his world.

   A cancer had grown inside him.

   not a metaphorical cancer,

a literal one.

eating away at his brain,

stealing away, slowly, quietly,

the man that we once knew,

and yet he did not show it.

He refused to show it.

Because he wanted to change the world for the better.

   Leave it better than he found it.

Maybe that's pride.

Maybe that's the eternal desire for immortality out of body

Maybe that's all you can do when you know your expiry date

Maybe it doesn't matter.