To Reclaim Dignity

Poem Playlist: The Dangers of Being Dead When You Are Alive #2

They don’t tell you

that to reclaim Dignity

is to become unhinged…

Untethered from the stability

of each binary’s 

crusty, compacted earth energy.

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Why does dignity feel like insanity?

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Unhinged from predictability,

and clarity,

normality;

places I never knew I liked so much… 

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Yet here I am, crazed 

by the worry of floating away.

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I am not crazed enough

to murder my captors in their sleep 

and flee.

I am Stockholm, 

and I am Syndrome.

And they feed me,

tho never enough,

and love me,

with eyes full of weapons,

and I feel safer here, 

tho I am not.

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Murder them.

Murder them.

Flee

in the night.

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It is insanity that keeps you here,

pretending to be sane

to appease them.

When you could be

the infinity of the cosmos

bursting from the seems 

of the only present moment.

Which is the most 

glorious and accurate

insanity…

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…Stop being insane

and just be insane…

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From my unpublished book of poetry, Eat Your Trauma.

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