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We've been lied to

ever since our birth.

That being is a blessing,

that being is better than nothing.

If I'd had the knowledge

within the warmth of the womb,

I'd have tied an umbilical noose

and brought an end to this world.

No one deserves

to be born at the end.

No one deserves

the curse of consciousness.

Survivor's guilt,

the manifestation of reality

that those who have perished

are the lucky ones.

A coward dies

over and over again.

Bearing witness

to the hubris of humanity.

We destroy ourselves daily anew,

in servitude and in vice.

Bowing before

our supposed removal from nature.

Rotting while still alive.

What to make

of an animal biting its tail?

Frustration and denial

that it itself is one

with life's inevitable defeat.

Children shocked by pain.

The collective cries of all suffering

echo empty into space.

Simple negatives embody

all that we ignore.

There is no redemption in trial,

no salvation through good behavior.

All is for naught.

Any and all is piss in the sea.