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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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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This girl in the mirror

Holding herself to these

Impossible standards, the

Expectation of perfection

She'd never ask of others

Knowing it unreasonable

And doing it nonetheless

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I could turn away

Pretending

Willing myself to ignorance

But no

I'll fight

Never resting

Envious of those who can.

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This mask, these masks

Impermanent, I know

Limiting, comfortable

But I cannot stand idle

While everything burns

Cracks in the porcelain

This shade of me, shimmering

My crimson rage

Channeled into words

Perhaps I have time

Time before words become acts

Before this fiction is cast aside

And I die once more for my cause.

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A momentary glimpse of the divine

Burning me to my core

Wonder replacing skepticism

Tentative hope supplanting despair

Where are you now, my goddess

Was my joy mere imagination

Or is your existence something more?

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