This is just a flight plan
That I don’t understand
I’m but a wayward leaf
Not knowing where I’ll land
In the mirror today
I asked for a favour
To find a way
To not see failure
In the face of sheer doubt
Why continue trying
Why keep insisting
My dreams are undying
In this life
It’s causing such strife
When these emotions won’t cease
I want only peace
Traversing across
This desolate land sighing
I thought plants would grow
To myself I was lying
What do you do
When the seeds don’t exist
When the earth crumbles before you
And you can no longer subsist
This thing called luck
Means nothing to me
My roots leave me stuck
So how can I be free?
Written By: BeNjamyn Upshaw-Ruffner
About The Author
BeNjamyn Upshaw-Ruffner
Former Editor-in-Chief
“I’ll never know everything about anything, but I’d like to know something about everything.”
- BeN/Isaac
BeN is the former Editor in Chief of The Insider, now an alumni contrbutor. An embodiment of the duality between Rational and Emotional thought, this universe’s version of BeN is presumed to be a human living on PNF-404 prior to the planet’s sixth mass extinction. In the currently observed timeline, he is born in a Quebec, Canada during the information age. He is very skilled at utilizing the English language, alongside philosophical ideas, as a means to an end. However, he doesn’t seem to have any tangible goal. Everything he seeks is very abstract. He often implies that the entirety of everything is itself a work of art being consumed in some unfathomable way. I am Isaac Dinotno, the name he has given to the voice in his mind. He and I are in perpetual communication. BeN claims to have experienced astral projection during peak emotional periods of his life, though I can’t verify this. If you are reading this now, you can find BeN at Concordia University.
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