Obedience

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compliance with what’s asked

no protestation matters

neither persuasive cravings

nor ingrained aversions

what type of choice is this

that knowingly selects for misery

to state a maybe useless stance

regarding common definitions?

has human freedom come full circle then?

intuitive arrival to the martyrdom

the saints could not outgrow

in all their shining wisdom

incessant change may be

the only comfort now

as fact being what it is

the It that fills and topples jugs without discretion

can’t beat it, join it

be the change

preserve a morsel of the system

separated from all else by skin

enlist oneself into the troops that won’t return

already having led self through the door

that opened with the single key

a birthmark stamped for said conscription

a snapshot every now and then

for observation of the pleasantry

the hoped for governance

to peasantry of analyzations

currently bleeding past the boundaries of silhouette

melting from heat of torch

that powers giving that which would

destroyed be otherwise by expectations

stay with this realization

that in me which is the object of equanimous observer

stay like a well-trained canine friend

in order to receive a could-be promised treat

and my love is working on the same

though is he not?

he is working on the same

burden as me

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