First Published in Different Truths, September 2020
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane — Marcus Aurelius Madness To you a paean mankind should sing give you the place of a Queen Condemned by life is King Lear. Insanity borne of loss forgets the life that links Man to the Superman forgets the inherent Divinity that defines life outside the little boxes of unhappiness caused by manmade divides — people marginalised — Instead of seeing what they have, they cry for what they have not The golden deer that led to Sita being kidnapped remains trapped in phyletic minds as the ultimate annihilating goal for all mankind
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