This Isn't Eden

Set your expectation, ground it in reality

Get acquainted with the putridity of decay and stagnation

Experience nature in its most elemental form
The cruelty which manifests from its malevolence
As it strips existence from our mortal coil

Then take a breath
You're still here without a compass
But the expanses of existence will never be road-mapped
The form of desire can never be defined

It's malleable to your touch
Find pleasure in the profound, the profane, the perturbed
However it appears
It's yours to hold
Impossible to take
Tempting to relinquish in the wake of sufferance.
You may feel shadows
Of others
Creeping in on your light
But light is infinite
Uncommodified
Trust the extended hands outstretched in benevolence
Separate agendas from difference
We're all assimilating our own ideas of perfection
facades take all form
But we're all in the middle
Basking between light and dark
Where others lie on the binary
Is not for you to decide
Throw away the addiction to absolutes
It's all relative
Those who take can also give
Which exchange you see
Doesn't define the essence of man

Our sentience doesn't have to be subjugated
By whips of fear
Each crack
A new hysteria