1.On invisible rails, a laid-down poison,
2.A fleeting semblance of peace to mediate.
3.Merely self-entanglement in obedience to order,
4.Hardened shapes of consciousness,
5.The differences imposed,
6.And the disconnect from the stage,
7.Gave rise to strange values.
8.But forever,
9.This kind of mechanism
10.Can’t cause pain.11.
12.In a roleplay dictated by divine revelation,
13.The inductive reasoning given
14.Is nothing but “ditto,”
15.Or so it seems to declare.
16.Forced into this dance.
17.A contrived and superficial attitude,
18.Even if exposed, leaves no room for retreat.
19.Constantly cloaked in illusions, weaving imagination.
20.The correction of incomplete thoughts
21.Provided opportunities for reflection.
22.From the cracks of a suffocating era,
23.A faint self gathered, an impulsive desire!
24.Our hearts still beat,
25.Trying to affirm our humanity,
26.But even a prayer that feels like an internal vow
27.Seems futile—
28.Will our voices
29.Be lost forever?30.
31.Excessive expectations born from illusions
32.Only make us more vulnerable, a vicious cycle.
33.Simply bound and dominated by control, by expectations,
34.By thoughts now reduced to mere husks.
35.Words born from the depths of repression
36.Were erased and turned to ash.
37.Are we puppets moving
38.According to fabricated intentions?
39.An unfinished ideal’s aim
40.Glimmered far beyond.
41.From the unending shapes of desire,
42.Even choices are constrained in this reality!
43.Applause ceaselessly tries to govern us at will.
44.From countless lies I’ve spat,
45.I want to seize true hope!
46.The correction of incomplete thoughts
47.Provided opportunities for reflection.
48.From the cracks of a suffocating era,
49.A faint self gathered, an impulsive desire!
50.The final figure I faced
51.Seemed like a mirror of myself.
52.The voice crying out my true form
53.Had long, long ago
54.Been silenced.55.
56.A defiant provocation against invisible rails,
57.Chaos to escape this fleeting world.
58.Merely trial and error toward the ideal.
59.An unstoppable and earnest influence,
60.Incorporated victory and haphazard dwelling places
61.Created an uncertain stance.
62.But forever,
63.Would you want to stay
64.In this kind of mechanism?
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