you thought you'd have a chance to beat the odds

foolish mortal

already agents of misuse

seek you out to break your spiritual kneecaps

for daring to challenge the diffident tyranny

of the Almighty

for the more they're told to strive and to grow

the more likely their end at the hands of some demon

of their own devising

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