which came first my selfishness...or my sense of sorrow?

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a patient hunger

...there are two great evolutions, one is of the vainglorious
fantasies that are sustaining our precious identities, as they are
on an imaginary move to nowhere...

...these are the mainstay deceptions that comprise and complicate
our present human lives...and though we, in ignorance, know them not for what they are...these same illusions have always been, awaiting as a patient hunger, upon our every whim. 

rww