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Atlas Shrugged

June 12, 2013
By dance_write_dream SILVER, Briarwood, New York
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dance_write_dream SILVER, Briarwood, New York
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&ldquo;You&#039;ve gotta dance like there&#039;s nobody watching,<br /> Love like you&#039;ll never be hurt,<br /> Sing like there&#039;s nobody listening,<br /> And live like it&#039;s heaven on earth.&rdquo; <br /> ― William W. Purkey

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Atlas shrugged
my world shook
I fell down into the streets

Picking up
I dusted off
my fragile broken self

Atlas shrugged
I braced myself
'gainst a pillar of stone

I did not fall
to bloody knees
instead I clung to stone

Now Atlas shrugs
My world shakes
but I do not fall

Instead I walk
head held high
through this crumbling world

© Kailey E., Crownsville, MD

The author's comments:
This piece was inspired by the phrase "Atlas shrugged." I don't even remember where I heard it for the first time, but it's been bonking around my head and now I have finally gotten the poem onto paper!
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