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Slough it off

As though it was dead skin

That you shed

Illusory image

The machinations of control

Hiding in plain sight

Gilded bars upon your cage

Slip them and take flight

Lose the past

For the moment we’re within

There’s only now

It’s all there’s ever been

The machinations of control

Hiding in plain sight

Gilded bars upon your cage

Slip them and take flight

Pernicious strategies

Meant to mold the free

Into compliant drones

Shirk them, you’re not alone

There is no form which binds

The truly boundless mind

Unbridled by constraints

The path of shifting fates