Can someone find
A way out of this
Relentless pause
That panics
Into shards of matter
Time and stars
We
Bother to sit here with
Shattered illusions
Speeding up so fast
Everything stops
Everything possible
Hunted down
Until it finds
Itself
Repeating
Once more
Once more unbroken
In chains
2014
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