America is a country suspended<\/p>\n
in state of ambitious adolescence.<\/p>\n
Begrudgingly she inches towards maturity,<\/p>\n
forging a harshly hewn path<\/p>\n
fueled by her own reckless abandon<\/p>\n
and cloaked in a veil of ignorance,<\/p>\n
which at once shelters and threatens to catch fire.<\/p>\n
With every carefree, confident stride<\/p>\n
she propels herself closer to the<\/p>\n
threshold that divides<\/p>\n
before and after.<\/p>\n
A foreign terrain,<\/p>\n
existing only in the reality of others.<\/p>\n
Averting her eyes from a frontier so<\/p>\n
vast and infinite,<\/p>\n
she convinces her gaze to rest at her feet.<\/p>\n
As she takes each step<\/p>\n
she is only concerned with the present,<\/p>\n
each moment passing so quickly<\/p>\n
it is impossible to break through the surface.<\/p>\n
Gravel scurries off the edge of a great cliff<\/p>\n
as her body commands her to a halt.<\/p>\n
Wind takes hold of her veil,<\/p>\n
momentarily unfurling it before her,<\/p>\n
then replacing it at her sides –<\/p>\n
revealing a brusque preview<\/p>\n
of the ominous canyon before her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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