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Poets & Storyteller's prompt is "Survive out of spite". I merged the two.
A Separate Peace
Care about what others think
and you will always be their prisoner.
- Lao Tzu
Pity.
I pity you.
The fire you carry
Can only consume you.
It shows in your face,
In your fists, in your eyes.
All of it wasted on me.
My goal,
My mission,
Is to laugh at you,
To laugh openly
At the emotions
That are constantly
Brewing,
Infusing your life,
With an acidic phlegm—
Corroding the vessel
That contains them.
It is not my role
To reflect them back at you,
Neither magnified, nor reduced,
Just ignored.
That is the greatest revenge,
To make and hold a space
Where I am constant and true
To my own values,
To walk my own path.
To not to give you a piece of my mind,
But to create a peace within my mind,
A separate peace.
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To put people's minds at rest, I had no-one specifically in mind when writing this. It was just a writing exercise.
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