And So: An Age of Woe

The way they win
Is to make you 
Defeat yourself.

I don’t know how they do it
But it’s pretty effective,
That sleight of hand
That makes it impossible 
To exist comfortably 
In a world
That rejects 
Everything about you,
Sees nothing
In what means so much to you,
What seems so profound,
What could change the world,
If anyone were at all ready for it.

And of course they’re not,
So you’re not 
Anything.
Just a hot mess,
A messenger of woe.
Mostly your own.

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