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Am I Becoming a Statue

Existential Poem

Mason Bushell
WE PAW Bloggers
Published in
3 min readJan 10, 2023

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It struck me that life imitates a statue when it loses all momentum and meaning. Here’s a poem exploring that. What do you think?

Am I Becoming a Statue

I’m becoming cold stone
My dreams are stalling
Ambitions have flown
To live is no longer enthralling

Every day is colder
In a world I don’t belong
I’m becoming a boulder
Is this my swan song

Every day wasted garble
I struggle to exist
Slowly turning to marble
At least a stone can persist

A hermit self-jailed
Is this what I’m coming to
Simply freezing as I failed
Have I become a statue

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Mason Bushell
WE PAW Bloggers

A prolific author with a demon on his shoulder and a head full of characters. Meet some of them at his menagerie.