Embargo on Humanity Jana Elawar ‘23
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sychologically manipulative Misconstruing its own agenda the Mind—— the designer of its own catastrophe, the cause of its despair, the causation for its demise. Escape is a dream. Asleep—the Mind slips away silencing reality A fantasy What joy. What liberty. But relentless in pursuit to control You Rise Again. Swallow our meds dry each morning because there is nothing to soften its descent. Nothing to soften the edges of our Mind constantly telling you: to suppress to compress to sustain to remain—standing
to somehow keep going in a world that tells you to keep it all in. the last thing you need is to be boxed in by Your Mind——to be controlled. When all one longs for is joy— When all one longs for is liberty— When predecessors only fought for freedom— Why is our Mind against us? Why is our Mind against the natural inclination of worldly embargo? Four score and seven years ago This life This war All of this lore Taught us to endure. Yet we trap ourselves, living without direction. Unlearned creatures—Longing for a purpose while silencing our passions. We want to find ourselves, yet Humanity is against us. Why do we swallow our meds dry? Why don’t we have the will to go downstairs and get water? Why don’t we want to make it easier on ourselves? No one knows.
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