Evils once contained
Have broken free of their prison
And fascism, cruelty
Are ascendant, have risen
In mythology, heroes
Kept their darkness at bay
But reality's crueler
Complacency created these days
Viral, that's what I am
Words shifting perspective
Reason as a cancerous growth
Poison, seeping into your system
Truth, that deadliest of toxins
Operating from the shadow you cast
And taking you down, cell by cell.
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It is impossible, they say
Denying the results
Telling us we are mistaken
Ridiculing us to our peers
And then
When they can no longer deny
They steal the work
And call it their own.
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This world lost its sense of wonder
Its people bound to cold half-truths
Sold the inevitability of its descent
By prophecies peddled by monsters
Who seek to profit from hope's demise
It is time to awaken, sleeping heroes
To cast off the shackles you've donned
Take up your swords, your pens
Scream defiance
And fight. Fight and win.
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A tiefling, seething
Never believing their scheming
Seeing through their lies to their meaning
Their institutions gleaming, seeming
Perfect but hiding the rot teeming
In the foundations, in the ceilings,
This teethling tiefling-
Fuck. I should be sleeping.
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In a moment
Life overturned
Gaslit by doctors
Dismissed
Sold snake oil
Told to be patient
Miserable
Sleeping to escape
Dreading dawn
Remembering
That I was once whole
Hoping
That I may be once again.
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Grasp your panic and fear
Trap it in a box in your mind
Cast it into the recesses of your psyche
Emotionless, a caricature of bravery
But later
Resurfacing, the clasps rotted
Festering panic
Infectious fear
Will break free
Will break you
The price, with interest, paid in the end.
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Today, I give thanks
For those who tolerate my fictions
And for those who understand
That there is more beneath this mask.
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