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Kindly bent to free us,

A heart-to-heart farewell,

My armor begins to rust,

It forms the scrapyard gates to hell.

DNA,

Trapped in ice.

Absorbed into a fossil site.

My cheek cells traced

to an ancient human figure.

Hobbit-sized.

Kindly bent to free us,

The joy, the sorrow, and the pain.

Life returns to mother dust,

Aboard we sail to sink one day.

Beyond mere blood lineage or self-transcending simian.

I rise to taste the dawn and find that love will shine on.

Evolution.

Beyond rationality.

The one solution

to turn my head and imitate

The sun.

The one who's always been,

Has seen much worse than this projection.

Persecution.

Kindly bent to free.

Kindly bent to free us.

Kindly bent.

Kindly bent to free us.

Kindly bent.

Kindly bent to free us.