We Begin

We begin.

 

We are thrust forth from the womb.

We grow.

We metamorphose.

We argue, learn, love, fall, jump, reach, breathe, consume, hurt, break, push, stretch, calm, change, thirst, understand, lead, follow, hunger,      pursue, play, laugh, run, smile, cry, fly, sink, enjoy, demolish, hug, punch, scream, whisper, give in, care, caress, kill, birth. We swallow back    emotions, hide our own self-trusths.

We become brainwashed.

We break free from conformity.

Follow routine.

Regurgitate half-facts.

Blister and bake under the bright suns of others.

We endure our own individual concentration camps.

 

We End.

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