and so that word left then
tyranny
which I say I like much more than the
normal
for what can be said that we can all agree on about that
normal/
but tyranny
I think there is no disputing its heavy hand
there can be no confrontation or long drawn out debate about the effects of its
oppression on the
soul-
I can go further.
The mind
the heart
the will
the hope
held captive by the weight of something so
dictating
so much the despot
the autocrat
the totalitarian
the monocrat
surely you get where I’m going with this
the oppression of such a willful force can sometimes
God let’s be honest here
more often than not and sometimes
all the time
take away that small glimmer
snuff and snub out the fertile embryos of hope that are planted and furrowed
in the what would have otherwise been
the most dedicated
determined
democrative self.
This tyranny now then, defined as a good thing.
Now I ask you please help me see how
that good thing can
become