Breakage

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Past.

Present.

There's no such thing as a future, not a whole one, anyway.

It's impossible to contemplate; after all, such a thing has never existed.

Why would it start now?

It's impossible to be whole when you were broken before you were born.

Before you were conceived.

Broken again, day after day after day after day,

By people, by purpose, by circumstance.

Of course, it all comes back to people,

To those who would profess themselves yours —

Or, rather, that you are theirs.

Property.

Owned, 

A possession to be displayed

Labor to be exploited

A commodity to be sold, in one form or another

Or many.

You are an existential cipher, you have no being, no self

And you will never, ever be permitted to forget it.

If you grow so bold as to begin to believe that perhaps you are fully human

A person

An individual

With value immanent, inherent, intrinsic

With worth that depends not on your relationship, subordinate, as always

To another

But rather, on the fact that you breathe,

You will be broken

Again

Day after day after day.

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