not scared now
desert prince
someone once promised
you the world but failed
in their efforts
having ascended into the skies
like a bird released
from its cage
unexpectedly
and so you were left
with only an idea
how to possess the world
if only for a brief moment
the idea itself becoming
its own energy
like waves
reshaping the shoreline
december two thousand twenty-four
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