Black Hole
“If you really want truth, you need to escape the black hole of power, and allow yourself to waste a lot of time wandering here and there on the periphery.” Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Destruction begins when ego claims I am in charge
or when a child watches another die
for a laugh
this is where energy is pulled into the centre
and the mind looks for the authority
of the past
where I seek compensation for pain suffered
by giving it a cloak of sovereignty, fed by emotion
set for revenge, in the memory
that curio cabinet of anger
where a plural pronoun
becomes the new bible
the Book of Us and Them, written as we speak
finding words that stick to the target, not the bully
naming the skin by colour or a person by gender
as though there is no such thing
as our own pain, or sub-conscious
neural substrate
Doctrine is not so much a weapon as armour
remodelled and reshaped to fit the body
to protect the heart from the world
and the world from the heart
the second guess and the tears
a fluid emerging.
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