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Am I the one whose attention you seek?

Don’t you believe in your fears and don’t you want to be free

from the limits you claim keep you trapped in the past

and don’t you want me to release the courage you lack?

But what if fear is the first ingredient of courage?

And what if I’m not afraid to let you wallow in fear?

What if I point to truths you pretend you can’t know?

What if I point to myths you pretend can’t be myths?

No,

I’m not the one whose attention you seek

I don’t believe in your fears and I don’t mind if you’re free

You seek people who agree with you that you are trapped

but I’m a threat to the prison that you call your past

It’s a thought that you’re trapped and just a thought that you lack

something like courage that prevents you from freedom

That you’re not free is a thought

that you should be is a thought

and that something should be

may imply that it’s not

so if you should be free

that may mean that you’re trapped

in the thought that you should be

free from all these thoughts

about thinking and courage and freedom and what should be

but thoughts never trapped you

for thoughts cannot touch you

You may have simply pretended to be trapped

and that may have been fun for as long as it lasted

Yeah but I may be the one whose attention you fear

for attention can melt all the myths that you smeared

all over your thoughts and then claimed to be

but you’re not a myth

and you’re not a belief

and you’re not a thought

so you can’t be freed

from you

who do you think you are

who do you think you should be

stop

I think I just figured it out

you know you’ve been a harsh judge

so you fear your own attention

ha!

you try to make up for your past, right?

you want to earn redemption

and to some day get to heaven

but only if you can do it a certain way

right?

well, good intentions

are said to pave the road to hell

so you may choose to take the road less traveled

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