A system of truth would tell how much of us is nothing ;
It would say how extended procedures last
Minutes in the mind, when instant acts, an eternity;
How, with age advancing, impressions trade places
Between each other. A system of truth would surely say
Why you’re gone when truth wasn’t obvious,
It would explain why I am sitting at my desk
And think of you and of how much of us is nothing.

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