the oblivion lies in our sin breathing only the insipid air of this artificial atmosphere created where wooden limbs walk and plastic faces grin in grace at the latest chemical masterpiece we wish to create hopes genetically altered rearranged to fit mass ideals love bought and sold for strands of DNA and dreams lay in death in the laboratory as we smile chemical smiles teeth in rows gleaming as imperfection becomes slowly obsolete and the world satisfies its swollen hunger for aesthetic pleasure and what's become of us now as we tear down the barriers of facial beauty and different no longer casts its shadow on the light of this irreverent conformity? when light's all that exists........
Reason for writing:
a conversation i had with a friend about how scary this reality could be...
Birth sign: Aquarius
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