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Perception


Painter, paint your skies.

Cover them, cloud them with a thousand lies.

Throw your shadows into the night

and block any fraction of light.

You don’t paint to please,

You paint to hide.

You paint to expose our lives

in a way we refuse

but could never deny.
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