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They asked me,

why don’t you jump from skyscrapers

for the sake of humanity?

I looked at their hands

still warm with coffee,

still steady with comfort

and I said,

I would jump from a mountain

if the fall could shake humanity

so hard

that its tremors

traveled through generations

through cradles,

through graves,

through the bones of tomorrow.

The sound I would become

not a scream,

a bang

would send ripples

through the ribs of the cosmos.

You would all be swallowed

by that echo,

only to be returned

as humans with no destination,

no hunger for meaning,

no memory of kindness

alive,

but emptied of love.