Once the world was perfect, and we were happy in that world. Then we took it for granted.
This shows how humans get used to a good thing and think that its basic needs but when they lose it they are distrought
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Fetch?
The golden retriever has been alerted that they are playing catch
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like to think some boy’s been swinging them
Some boy probably has swung from them at some point
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trying to imagine what the person must look like who wrote “Don’t be a ninny”
They themselves are a ninny for using the word ninny
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Earmonric had the mind of a wolf, by all accounts a cruel king,
so a ruler whom rules with an iron fist
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If it cries to you that it hurts, if you can, ease its pain.
It is telling you to be kind in most instructions
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They never forgot
They don't forget what happens because it is a traumatic experience no one pays any mind to.
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Or
The beggining is the end and the end the begining is oddly satisfying its as if you've completed your journey and you will rest before you begin again
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But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it.
The author is expressing frustration because people don't want to enjoy the poem and instead they try to spin it into what they want it to mean
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