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What is Duty

What is duty?

Is it a rose, doomed to wilt and perish and break apart?

Is it the numbered days of a beating heart?

Is it an answer to the cries of those fallen below?

Is it a call to a morality forgotten long ago?

 

Do we have a duty?

Can it belong to an imaginary destiny that can set all wrongs to right?

Can it be shared by two worlds of strangers blocked by a glass wall?

Can it be left behind and abandoned to the recesses of night?

Can it be a way to rise after a tremendous fall?

 

Where is duty?

Has it sunken, but did it struggle and scream before it drowned?

Has it flown away, but did it go without a single sound?

Has it fallen, but did it leave before it could be seen?

Has it faded, like an old, discarded dream?