Is it a crime if I am no one?
Is it a sin if I am nothing?
Are all these labels so necessary?
Can I wash them off and just keep one thing?
Titles and roles stuck on the body like leeches,
drinking blood, spreading their eggs repeatedly.
They cover us and then, we don’t see us anymore.
We believe that we’re the leeches, living defeatedly.
I’m not my labels and my titles, I’m not what I do.
I know it when I coordinate with my epicentre.
It’s the only stable point I can put my axis on.
“I am” is my autonomous eternal centre.
It’s not practical to be …untitled on this sphere.
Through our roles, we create value and “expanse”.
But we’re absorbed by them, losing our clarity.
Earth becomes unstable; confusion over balance.
When I drift from my epicentre and lose stability,
I contact Archimedes, and he whispers again his words:
“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it,
and I shall move the world”.
If you swim in the Social Media ocean, you’ll find me somewhere here for Instagram and here for Facebook, on a raft like the one Odysseus had, monologuing sometimes in Greek and sometimes in English.
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Anthi Psomiadou — CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International : Credit must be given to the creator/ Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted/ No derivatives
Excellent, and you won't be surprised that our thoughts are very aligned. Too bad there's no highlight function here. See my piece from September that resonates on similar frequencies with yours. https://medium.com/channspirations/of-labels-unity-and-democracy-8330be0087e7
Unfortunately, that axis is either rusted beyond recognition or simply nonexistent in too many people or even most.