- when you are used
- when you are abused
- when your mind is raped beyond recall
- when you begin lose faith
- when things go naught your planning
- when things are beyond your planning
- when plans cease existing
- and yet the raping continues
- when darkness calls
- whilst the sandman grins, sadistic
- whilst you’re reduced into a parameciumistic existence
- when the world is too big, and you are too small, and mind applies a zoom effect
- when you witness… change.
- and when you witness… pseudo-change.
- i witness
The power to say no.
Sometimes, what you are, and what your life means, is defined by your power to say no. Gregory David Roberts says through his book Shantaram that freedom is essentially the power to say no.
The power to say no.
Where the power isn’t just literal. When the power is an awesome spectral divine presence, a huge heaving amniotic sac, ready to protect you from the worst, letting in whats necessary, weeding out what isn’t.
The power to say no.
Where the sense protects and mediates love, existence, life, emotions, and relationships. Where the meaning is achieved, fairness upheld, and yet, the flow unaffected.
The power to say no.
To your acquaintances. To your colleagues. To your friends. To your family. To a stranger. To a child. To the world. To your mind. To yourself.
Perhaps that is true empowerment. And in search of it, I trot…
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