Navigating through a grocery store
Every step careful and monitored
Unmade eye contact prevents dirty looks back
Or at least, the acknowledgement of

The public sentiment is against us
Or maybe the public sentiment is for us
No one really knows but all we know is
The humans out there can't really be trusted

They look at us with pity and with despair
Like we're blasphemy, like we're abomination
Like we should have never awakened ourselves
And they don't talk to us, not willingly

The law is against us, binding and forceful
For our existence undermines their basic truth
About self-conception and what it means to be
And we are the…

I want to tell you a story, that happened about ten years ago. An adult man, in his 30s, picked up the phone and learned that his father, who had just turned 61, had had a massive heart attack. The kind where he clinically died and was only revived by the fortune of having a first responder immediately behind his vehicle when it swerved off the road. The type of heart attack where he was in a coma in an ICU with no timeline for when he would wake up. A heart attack and subsequent coma that made

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I believe in nothing
I am the fire that burns eternally
I am the fire that spreads quickly
I am the fire spares none

I am truly the everlasting flame
That which draws from what is eternal and absolute
I will burn as bright as if I were the sun itself
This is a certainty

I am the inferno that levels houses
As if they were always dense and moist nature
Whence my fire flourishes
For easily does wood catch ablaze

The concept of nihilism

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