Cruel invention

 

Eternity is a terrible, blank sheet of paper, 

and your identity is the deliberate act 

of running with scissors. 

We are haunted by the infinite, 

not because it is empty, 

but because it is crowded 

with everything we are not. 

'Self-invention' is less about addition 

and more about systematic, dynamic subtraction. 

You do not build a personality; 

you erode the excess noise 

until the distinct signal 

can finally be heard. 

Every 'no' you say 

to a possible path 

is a violent stroke 

that allows the 'yes' 

of your singular existence 

to finally bleed through 

the fabric.

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