Hello. I invited the timid here tonight to dare them into submission and acquiesce their will. A traveler without a destination, I came upon your town by chance but now that I'm here, I know what I must do.
I must inform you of the danger you're in. The danger I speak of is complacency...Apathy's older cousin.
You collection of migrants, the remnants of a baneful society, have been clouded in the doldrum of comfortable silences. Afraid to embark upon those voyages that challenge the voice deep within. Say no more for I am here.
I stay only because the darkness is ripe and ready for fresh perspectives, yet, we flounder in the light. So let's go to the edges of humanity Brothers and Sisters and give in to the motley gatherings of unfiltered thoughts.
I am not your captain.
I am not your connoisseur
I have no sympathy of State
and encourage no swell of devotion.
I am only here to stand proxy for your
Backbone...It misses your support.
I will show you how to be brave.
I will dare you to be hated for original composition.
I will not vouch for you until you've freed yourselves of tempered practices and all the safety nets inherited from those braver than you.
All I ask in return is that upon my leave, you send behind me, those who won't conform. Those clay demons who refuse to be molded, put them out! Let them follow in my footsteps if only in a mocking gait, for I will fall upon them when the sun has left this side of the world. Fear not for them.
I will prey upon their stubbornness.
I will peer pressure their paranoia
I will deregulate their required terms of engagement and return them to you with scratches and claw marks on their souls. Then they will bend and I will be gone forever.
Goodbye. Feast in the shadows, new citizens of the forgotten Society, until your bulk is remembered in song. Whoever passes through here next should never want to leave. For you are now agents of regurgitated heretics and what you create doesn't have to be pretty or safe again.
--------by the Wayward Stranger
just a fictional rant
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RastgeleAn offering of small tales laced with intrigue and delights. Sometimes I need an escape from topical poetry in the pursuit of more fantastical renderings. No rules, no boundaries, no truth in the lies. Yet, when you live in the lie everything inside...
