our lives are on loan


hide from others

evade contact

view the world

from within

your flimsy bubble

this is our condition

each of us

and we are obliged

by this essence

in ways from which

we can never detach

we answer to forces

beyond our control

even as they meld us

even as they break us

your only advantage

and protection is none


our lives are not our own...



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