What are Mankind’s Chains?
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
What are mankind’s chains?
The Laws
A passport still in a backpack untouched for a year.
An E320 with no speeding tickets on record.
Two doses and nowhere to go.
Tickets are cancelled and borders are closed.
The Fear of Judgment
A boss who cares about measurables for his reports.
A mortgage and a few embossed pieces of paper.
So many unstolen kisses.
The rule follower.
Always has done the right thing.
Would not want to displease the divine.
The Impotence of Self
Ideas for books that are never started.
A curated and indulged sense of victimhood.
Praised potential that is shot through by a desire for perfectionism.
A self worth that is rather worthless.