Lines in the Sand
What is madness
if not the body’s way of crying out,
“Enough.”
It’s not betrayal;
it’s a retreat—a firebreak.
When the world turns unbearable,
the mind bows to its own mercy.
It draws a line in the sand
and declares,
“Here. Not beyond this point.”
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