Warden

Inspired by "On Leaving the Ground" by Edgar Ballantyne

Photo by ActionVance on Unsplash

We're all prisoners of gravity.
That edge-of-purview mastermind
who's been pulling your strings
of dopamine and depression triggers,
making sure you straggle listlessly
penny pinching for hope through life
for that one day to be the one, isn't
the blood-deprived demon oligarchical 
in sadism, the karma-starved angel
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