ADAMANTINE'S MANDATE

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+ADAMANTINE'S MANDATE
+2024-01-01
+
+***
+
+before, in your grief, the heavens you beseech
+"direct my actions; the world I want's beyond reach"
+just remember all the men who ever deemed you "leech"
+
+between terror and wildfire's rage you oscillated
+unsure if in reach was your own liberation
+or if it was too much to hope for, craven
+
+call it patriarchal reversal, projection,
+but even bearing the blood of your mother's chaotic kin
+the world that you seek is one where you escape
+where theirs is one where they've made women their slaves
+
+your first reaction to this realization is to declare war:
+"I can't tolerate this lifelessness! I won't take it anymore!"
+but piles of generations stronger than you have tried that very same:
+but what if the men threw a war, and this time not a single gyne came?
+
+think about this year past, of all the blessings I bestowed
+when you stopped wasting all your energies on the fruitless hope
+that you could convince your parents through tears and self-abandonment
+to change and instead refocused on what you could do to circumvent
+
+you kept your promises to Luce: you got your high employment
+and now work from home in a self-sovereign apartment
+that you needed no help to acquire, no hand-holding, no debt
+so, considering this: instead of war, what if you made a world instead?
+
+like you wanted five years ago as you write this:
+a world free of coercion and sickness
+the likes of which can barely be imagined:
+as startling as you stand now compared to "just moved in"?
+
+you've got to remember: you've survived every "moid"
+who beseeched their god that you'd succumb to the void
+I'll be your shield: black, gold, adamantine
+if you'll still be my Anima Mundi
+
+***
+
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