🪷May we learn to break our bounds instead of our bonds

On how authoritarianism breaks relationships

When, in the streets,
  they use brute force
    to make us comply
      with their agenda,
        it breaks our bond.

When, in our home,
  you use brute words
    to try to make them comply
      with your agenda,
        it breaks your bond.

When, in my mind,
  I use brute pressure
    to make me comply
      with my agenda,
        it breaks my bond
          with me.

Please may we learn
  to break our bounds
     of creativity 
     and cooperation,
instead of our bonds
     of connection.

Winston and the setting sun

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In the notebook

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