conditioned to be fine

"Laughing, crying, tumbling, mumbling,

Gotta do more, gotta be more

Chaos screaming, chaos dreaming

Gotta do more, gotta be more!"

- Charlie Dalton

There are many times these words reside in my head

Haunting my every move, with its painful undertone

I hear the children of what could've been screaming

'Look at what you've done! It's over... It's too late'

Everyday they tighten the ropes...

quartered...

mere fractions of what we used to be, what we were supposed to be

martyred...