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Why

Must we tolerate

The asphyxiation

The distance

The restraints

They bind us with

And the cells we abide

We pass by

Without a word

As we circumambulate

It’s simple and quiet

To shelter inside

But it comes with a price

We may humble our minds

And conquer desire

But we are alive no less

They coldly spy

With despotic eyes

And scan for impieties

When they moralize

We internalize

Their odious rhetoric

And all the while

These zealots and tyrants

Sap their flocks of vitality

Their empty lives

Cheap and vulgarized

By their condescension

As we are deprived

They privatize

and deflect those who question

Look deep inside

you remember the lies

you only supress

the memory

It’s simple and quiet

To shelter inside

But it comes with a price

We may humble our minds

And conquer desire

But we are alive no less

They coldly spy

With depositic eyes

And scan for impieties

When they moralize

We internalize

Their odious rhetoric

And all the while

These zealots and tyrants

Sap their flocks of vitality

Their empty lives

Cheap and vulgarized

By their condescension

These are our lives

These are our lives

These are our lives in the cloisters